Meaning & use

Sheesha

noun·Everyday

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A water pipe used for smoking flavored tobacco, or the flavored tobacco itself; a variant spelling of 'shisha.'

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They spent the evening at a café, sharing a sheesha of apple-flavored tobacco.

The lounge was filled with the sweet smoke of sheesha pipes.

A note on using this word

Both 'sheesha' and 'shisha' derive from Persian and Arabic terms for glass, referring to the pipe's glass water chamber.

Words with a similar meaning

shishahookah

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