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bowl

1[bohl]
–noun
1. a rather deep, round dish or basin, used chiefly for holding liquids, food, etc.
2. the contents of a bowl: a bowl of tomato soup.
3. a rounded, cuplike, hollow part: the bowl of a pipe.
4. a large drinking cup.
5. festive drinking; conviviality.
6. any bowl-shaped depression or formation.
7. an edifice with tiers of seats forming sides like those of a bowl, having the arena at the bottom; stadium.
8. Also called bowl game. a football game played after the regular season by teams selected by the sponsors of the game, usually as representing the best from a region of the country: the Rose Bowl.
9. Typography. a curved or semicircular line of a character, as of a, d, b, etc.
–verb (used with object)
10. to give (a floor) a gentle inclination on all sides toward some area, as a stage or platform.

Origin:
bef. 950; ME bolle, OE bolla; c. ON bolli. See boll


bowllike, adjective
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bowl

  1. n.
    a pipe or other device for smoking cannabis. (Drugs.) : There's somebody's bowl out in the hall. Go get it before the neighbors call the fuzz.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bowl 
O.E. bolla "pot, cup, bowl," from P.Gmc. *bul- "a round vessel" (cf. O.N. bolle, O.H.G. bolla), from PIE *bhel- "to inflate, swell" (see bole).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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