Definitions for chillum

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chillum chil·lum

Spelling: [chil-uh m]

IPA: /ˈtʃɪl əm/

Chillum is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in chillum (chillmu).

Definitions for chillum

noun

1. the part of a hookah that contains the tobacco, marijuana, or other substance being smoked.
2. the substance that is smoked.
3. a hookah or other water pipe adapted for smoking marijuana, that can be passed in ritual fashion among a group of participants: used especially by Rastafarians.
4. a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

Origin of chillum

First recorded in 1775-85, chillum is from the Hindi word cilam

Examples for chillum

Gie'em (give them) rice, peas, four cook for chillum, one nurse.

My wife had been dead fur sebrel years, an' not habbin' any chillum I libed by myse'f in er cabin on er big plan'ation.

Thy servant was keeping watch over his masters, and smoking his chillum.

chillum, chil′um, n. the part of a hookah containing the tobacco and charcoal balls: a hookah itself: the act of smoking it.

Masson describes a "chillum," or smoking apparatus, found embedded in an ancient wall in Beloochistan.