# Dopers Outside the USA: What Do You Call A Bong (Water Pipe for Smoking Marijuana) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 29, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156 "2016-07-29T00:40:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/1 "2016-07-29T00:40:32Z")
What do you - or the locals where you live - call a [bong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong)? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/2 "2016-07-29T02:04:57Z")
Bong in Australia ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/3 "2016-07-29T03:15:02Z")
And “bong” in Britain too. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/4 "2016-07-29T03:30:56Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > What do you - or the locals where you live - call a [bong](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong)? To be fair, a Hooka/Argilah / Nargile /Qaylan (and similar sounding names all over Asia and North Africa. ) is just a bong but with the breathing hose attached… Not sure why they have to be described differently and ascribed to different cultures. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/5 "2016-07-29T03:43:07Z")
Since the OP is asking for personal experiences, let’s move this to IMHO. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/6 "2016-07-29T06:41:00Z")
Spain, the little ones you can hold in your hand are _pipas_ (like for tobacco) and the big ones _nargilés_. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/7 "2016-07-29T08:42:25Z")
Shisha pipe, hookah, or nargile (former Egyptian resident here, not much of an Arabic speaker). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/8 "2016-07-29T09:47:39Z")
Pipe or _pyp_ (pronounced peɪp ) for small handhelds (originally used for the traditional broken bottleneck pipe used for smoking dagga(weed)+Mandrax('ludes) - known as a White Pipe). Hubbly-bubbly for larger ones (also used to refer to Hookahs) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/9 "2016-07-29T11:04:14Z")
I rolled some extra large, cylindrical joints and shared them with friends from different lands. I called them _cones_. A U.K. friend was shocked it wasn’t a cannabis/tobacco mix and said he’d call it a _spliff_. A dude from Mali smiled broadly and said, _bazoooooka_, man. Also, bong terminology has become high tech. I’m old-school, but I hear people discussing percs, sidecars, and all kinds of other terms. Then again, they’re spending $500 on glassware. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/10 "2016-07-29T14:10:17Z")
In County Cork, I’ve only heard it referred to as a “bong”. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/11 "2016-07-29T14:35:46Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I rolled some extra large, cylindrical joints and shared them with friends from different lands. I called them _cones_. A U.K. friend was shocked it wasn’t a cannabis/tobacco mix and said he’d call it a _spliff_. A friend of mine is married to a guy from Germany. She tells me that he was aghast the first time she rolled him a J and it was just pot. Apparently Europeans like to mix their doob with tobacco. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/12 "2016-07-29T14:44:23Z")
“Bang” in France French. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/13 "2016-07-29T14:45:37Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > A friend of mine is married to a guy from Germany. She tells me that he was aghast the first time she rolled him a J and it was just pot. Apparently Europeans like to mix their doob with tobacco. Caribbeans also IME. I was smoking with a guy at a beach bar and got a speedy thing happening along with my buzz. I eventually figured out it was the nicotine. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/14 "2016-07-29T14:59:32Z")
I was in a garage yesterday. On the counter they had a box of “miniature glass hookahs.” I said to the guy behind the counter, “Last time I used one of those it was called a bong.” He laughed. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/15 "2016-07-29T18:20:54Z")
It is called a bong here in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/16 "2016-07-29T19:59:22Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > A friend of mine is married to a guy from Germany. She tells me that he was aghast the first time she rolled him a J and it was just pot. Apparently Europeans like to mix their doob with tobacco. I thought the entire reason it was called a joint was that it was a mixture (joining) of two plants. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-outside-the-usa-what-do-you-call-a-bong-water-pipe-for-smoking-marijuana/761156/17 "2016-07-29T20:33:29Z")
[Bong in Wisconsin](http://s419.photobucket.com/user/HEVIW8/media/funny_sh1t/bong-recreation-area.jpg.html)