The word bong is an adaptation of the Thai word baung ( ), which refers to a cylindrical wooden tube, pipe, or container cut from bamboo, and which also refers to the bong used for smoking.

Besides straight punches and bong shou as widely used in Wing Chun, this style also employs butterfly-buddha palms, the hook, upper cut, and gui quen ( back fist ) as central techniques.

Hermes is also the only one to react when Fry picks up a bong in " Bendin ' in the Wind ".

It is also eaten with raw vegetables, and often dipped in spicy sauces such as Laotian jaew bong.

Kup is one of eight playable characters in the 1986 Commodore 64 video game Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth. he is also mentioned in the DS version of transformers war for cybertron in the first level when the player walks near a display board he appears as a dialog box saying the occasional cybertronian greeting :" ba weep granna weep ninny bong " and is also mentioned when ironhide says " yeah but that can be Kup's problem ".

A bong may be constructed from any air-and water-tight vessel by adding a bowl and stem apparatus ( or slide ) which guides air downward to below water level whence it bubbles upward (" bubbler ") during use.

To get fresh air into the bong and harvest the last remaining smoke, a hole known as the " carburator ", " carb ", " choke ", " bink ", " rush " " shotty " " kick hole " or simply " hole ", somewhere on the lower part of the bong above water level, is first kept covered during the smoking process, then opened to allow the smoke to be drawn into the respiratory system.

The water pipe employed since the Qing dynasty can be divided into two types: the homemade bamboo bong commonly made and used by country people, and a more elegant metal version employed by Chinese merchants, urbanites, and nobility.

After the bowl has been packed and water has been inserted into the bong, the substance is lit and the smoke is drawn through water to produce a smoother smoke than other methods of smoking do.

* Dried water buffalo skin: () used in jaew bong and stews

* Kaipen: fried snack made of fresh water algae, usually served with jaew bong

* Bong water, the used fluid from a bong

A more complicated form of the paraphernalia, involves combining a spottle and a water bong, such that after the smoke is collected in the funnel it is then filtrated through water before it is inhaled.

It is consumed by being heated in a pipe, hookah, bong, bubbler, vaporizer, hot knife, smoked in joints, mixed with cannabis buds or tobacco ( the latter being more common in Europe and Africa ), or cooked in foods.

* US Patent number :, Water pipe or bong William V. Erickson et al.

The mechanics of a bong are compared to those of a laboratory gas washing bottle.

Thus for fear of the law many head shops will not serve customers who use the word " bong " or " bongs ", or any other word typically associated with illegal drug use.

The word is most likely derived from the indigenous Wiradjuri term bilabaŋ, which means " a watercourse that runs only after rain " and is derived from " bila ", meaning " river ", and possibly " bong " or " bung ", meaning " dead ".

As a cup, bowl, or even water-pipe or " bong ", the calabash is considered consistent with the " Ital " or vital lifestyle of not using refined products such as table salt, or using modern cooking methods, such as microwaves.

It is based on a format devised by David Briggs, who, along with Steven Knight and Mike Whitehill, devised a number of the promotional games for Chris Tarrant's breakfast show on Capital FM radio, such as the bong game.

In construction and function a bong is similar to a hookah, except smaller and especially more portable.

One of the earliest recorded uses of the word in the West is in the McFarland Thai-English Dictionary, published in 1944, which describes one of the meanings of bong in the Thai language as, " a bamboo waterpipe for smoking kancha, tree, hashish, or the hemp-plant.

Once the bong has a fair amount of smoke built up, the stem is separated from the bong and the remaining smoke will go into the smoker's lungs.

The all-news radio stations of the CBS Radio Network, of which WCBS is the flagship, air a " bong " ( sounding A = 440 Hz note ) that immediately precedes each top-of-the-hour network newscast.

In the East Coast of the United States, " beer funnel " is another term for " beer bong ".

Samshinbong ( bong means " peak ") is 1, 284 meters high and a popular, but strenuous, day-hike from the Ssanggye Temple entry point ( it is the closest major peak from this trailhead ).

( In those days his name was given as " Saigon John " and his war injury is described as taking a shot ( presumably friendly fire ) while smoking a bong ( improvised from his M16 ) with a North Vietnamese soldier, making his tunnel rat story presumably a retcon.

* Bang (, ) ( alternative spelling bong บ ้ อง ,) is a cutting, specifically of bamboo.

While technically ' bong ' does not mean a device used for smoking mainly marijuana, drug-related connotations have been formed with the word itself ( partly due to punning with Sanskrit bhangah " hemp ").

This device is called a " spong "-a portmanteau of " spottle " and " bong ".

* Waterfall bong, a type of bucket bong used to smoke marijuana

This cover includes samples taken from the film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls ( though this intro is typically removed when the song is played on the radio ), of a bong being used, and of the artists Eazy E and Just Ice.

Drakri, believed to have been founded by the abbot of Pha bong kh in the 18th century, was used as a meditational retreat by Klong rdol bla ma ngag dbang blo bzang ( 1719 – 1794 ), one of the most renowned scholars of the Lhopa Regional House ( Lho pa khang tshan ) of the Jé College ( Grwa tshang byes ).

* Thai, slang for cannabis mixed with tobacco, commonly smoked in a bong

The feud between the two escalated when Weevil befriended Veronica and came to her aid when Logan began smashing her car up with a crowbar as payback for Veronica planting a bong inside his locker ( which caused him to have his father take his car away from him as punishment ).

The class, assigned to grade him, gives him a D. Also, the dean of discipline pulls a gun on Spicoli when he mistakes his bong for a shotgun.

According to a legend, Dge lugs pa bla ma, Pha bong kha bde chen snying po ( 1878 – 1941 ) on a visit to this area to find a site for locating his hermitage saw a crow which spoke to him.

In November 2008 a video spread around the internet showing Piper smoking pot and taking a hit from a bong in front of a crowd cheering him on, although he later acknowledged his use of medicinal marijuana " to alleviate the symptoms associated with cancer.

At the 2004 and 2005 Carling weekend at the Reading and Leeds festivals, the Dirty Sanchez team performed a variety of stunts live onstage at the cabaret tent, including being dragged across a sandpapered stage on bare buttocks, and smoking a bong filled with their own urine, and with their own pubic hair instead of marijuana.

Diagram of a bong in operation.

To smoke a bong, the smoker must inhale in the bong so bubbles containing smoke begin to come from the stem.

As they communicated their intentions to controllers in Winnipeg and tried to restart the left engine, the cockpit warning system sounded again, this time with a long " bong " that no one present could recall having heard before.

( The same bong could be heard on the CBS Television Network, at the top of the hour immediately before the beginning of any televised program, in the 1960s and 1970s.

As an example, KNX, the CBS Radio Network all-news station in Los Angeles, broadcasts this " bong " sound on the hour.