chicha
- n an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
- Today is the fair, and the menfolk have gathered to barter for goods while women sit in circles, gossiping and sharing home-brewed chicha, or corn beer.
- Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn).
- All around the town plaza shops did a roaring business selling chicha, cane alcohol or beer.