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What does hubble bubble mean?
Wiktionary 
- hubble bubble (Noun)
Alternative spelling of hubble-bubble.
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| hubble-bubble - an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" | ||
| hookah, narghile, nargileh, sheesha, shisha, chicha, calean, kalian, water pipe, hubbly-bubbly | ||
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Wiktionary
- hubble-bubble (Noun)
A hookah.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- hubble-bubble (n.)
A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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hubble-bubble
hub′l-bub′l, n. an East Indian tobacco-pipe, in which the smoke is drawn through water with a bubbling sound. [Reduplic. from bubble.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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hubble-bubble
An eastern pipe for smoking tobacco through water, which makes a bubbling noise.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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hubble-bubble
Confusion. A hubble-bubble fellow; a man of confused ideas, or one thick of speech, whose words sound like water bubbling out of a bottle. Also an instrument used for smoaking through water in the East Indies, called likewise a caloon, and hooker.
