chillum · noun — A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.
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chillum is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃɪləm/.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani चिलम (cilam) / چِلَم (cilam), from Classical Persian چِلَم (čilam).
noun
- A conical pipe used for smoking marijuana, usually made of fired clay, porcelain, soapstone, glass or, more rarely, wood.e.g.“He could not think of moving till his baggage was cleared, or of travelling until he could do so with his chillum.” — 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter LVIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 521:
- The part of such a pipe that contains the tobacco and charcoal balls.
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