chibouk

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chi·bouk

also chi·bouque (chĭ-bo͞ok′, shĭ-)

A Turkish tobacco pipe having a red clay bowl and a slender stem that is often several feet in length.

[Turkish dialectal çıbuk, stick, rod, chibouk (equivalent to modern Turkish çubuk); akin to Old Turkic čıbuq, čubuq, stick, from diminutive of čıp, čıb-, branch.]

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chibouk

(tʃɪˈbuːk) or

chibouque

(Recreational Drugs) a Turkish tobacco pipe with an extremely long stem

[C19: from French chibouque, from Turkish çubuk pipe]

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chi•bouk

or chi•bouque

(tʃɪˈbuk, -ˈbʊk)

n.

a Turkish tobacco pipe with a stem sometimes 4 or 5 ft. (1.2 or 1.5 m) long.

[1805–15; < Turkish çibuk, variant of çubuk literally, shoot, sapling, staff]

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We lay on those divans a long time, after supper, smoking narghilies and long-stemmed chibouks, and talking about the dreadful ride of the day, and I knew then what I had sometimes known before--that it is worth while to get tired out, because one so enjoys resting afterward.

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"O servant of the Prophet," said the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk to the Mamoosh of the Invincible Army, "how many unconquerable soldiers have we in arms?"

For eight hours the broad brow of the Sheik of the Imperial Chibouk was corrugated with evidences of deep thought: he was calculating the chances of war.

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For single-letter symbols, I am unable to find anything longer than Ed Wolpow's PSYCHOPANNYCHY [1], though for the case where repeated symbols are forbidden I can offer the 8-letter WICKYUPS, UNBISHOP, CUSHIONY, CHIBOUKS, and BOYCHIKS.

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Every morning he would get up at dawn, look through eighty chibouks (20) laid out neatly before him, take out his tobacco pouch, stuff all eighty pipes very scrupulously and as evenly as possible, sit down by the window and quietly, thinking of nothing, smoke all of them, one by one--forty pipes before lunch and forty after.