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Chris -- 2018-04-11
From the steamy underbelly, where drugs and sex are never far apart: the hooker pipe.
Marrakesh Arts
Ornate Hooker Pipe, Price:£18.00
(http://www.marrakesharts.co.uk/images/O … index.html)
Auction
Lot 393: HOOKER PIPE IN A VANITY CASE.
Auction Location: United Kingdom
(http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/h … g6s3b7xnw4)
I love him but he has a hooker
he knows how much I hate the thought of drugs but tonight he said he had a hooker pipe which is like a bong.
(http://www.dearcupid.org/question/i-lov … ooker.html)
Hookah, from Arabic huqqah, for small casket or box to draw smoke through.
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The curved sweep of the hose-like part of the pipe might be seen as hook-shaped, which would amount to a different eggcorn with the same sound and spelling.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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