hoo·kah
| \ ˈhu̇-kə
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Definition of hookah
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The rapper King Von was shot and killed early Friday outside an Atlanta hookah bar, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
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NBC News, "Rapper King Von, 2 others, fatally shot in Atlanta," 6 Nov. 2020
The analysis, based on data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey, found that use of flavored hookah pipe tobacco among middle and high school students had declined from 2014 to 2018.
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Katie Hunt, CNN, "Teen use of flavored e-cigarettes has continued to rise, report says," 3 Oct. 2019
Strauss recounts first meeting Durant by chance at a San Francisco hookah bar, shortly after the superstar had signed with the Warriors.
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Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, "Demystifying the Golden State Warriors," 5 May 2020
Legislation passed by the House of Representatives to ban flavored electronic cigarettes would outlaw the flavored tobaccos used in hookah pipes.
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Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, "House-passed legislation would ban hookah tobacco," 4 Mar. 2020
However, smoking hookah is not safer than smoking other types of tobacco.
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Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, "House-passed legislation would ban hookah tobacco," 4 Mar. 2020
On Wednesday, officials banned hookah from cafes in a bid to stem the contagion.
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Ramin Mostaghim, Mostafa Salem And Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, "Iran was already struggling with one crisis. Now it has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East," 26 Feb. 2020
When he was inevitably caught with a man, his father delivered a brutal beating, punctuated with a red-hot hookah charcoal on his arm.
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Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, "Why Apple’s new TV show tells the stories of real immigrants — with no mention of Trump," 16 Jan. 2020
What happened last week at the Midnight hookah bar – a modest lounge in the German town of Hanau, where a largely Turkish clientele often goes to relax in the evenings – should really be enough to change the debate in Germany.
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Can Dündar, Time, "How Many Mass Shootings Will It Take for Germany to Confront Its Far-Right Problem?," 25 Feb. 2020
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The first known use of hookah was in 1763
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