0 a place where customers can sit and smoke shisha (= pipes for burning tobacco, in which smoke passes through a container of water before it is breathed in):
He took me to another shisha house, where we started to teach each other bits of Arabic and English.
There is a dense warren of outdoor shisha cafes in the back alleys surrounding Cairo's old stock exchange.
When a football match is on, shisha cafes are packed with people gathered around the TV sets.
More authentic Egyptian socializing is to be found by sharing a water pipe with friends in the numerous sheesha bars.
In Belgium, smoking is allowed at shisha bars, but food may not be served in the same place.
