kalian n : an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water; "a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola" [syn: {hookah}, {narghile}, {nargileh}, {sheesha}, {shisha}, {chicha}, {calean}, {water pipe}, {hubble-bubble}, {hubbly-bubbly}]