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hoodoo

[hoo-doo]

noun

plural

hoodoos 
  1. Hoodoo. African American folk magic practiced predominantly in the southeastern United States through rituals of protection, herbal medicine, charming of objects, and ancestor veneration.

  2. (in popular culture) bad luck, or a person or thing that brings bad luck.

  3. Geology.a pillar of rock, usually of fantastic shape, left by erosion.



verb (used with object)

hoodooed, hoodooing 
  1. (in popular culture) to bring or cause bad luck to.

hoodoo

/ ˈːː /

noun

  1. a variant of voodoo

  2. informala person or thing that brings bad luck

  3. informalbad luck

  4. (in the western US and Canada) a strangely shaped column of rock

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. informal(tr) to bring bad luck to

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • ˈǴǻǴǾ noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hoodoo1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75; apparently a variant of Voodoo
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hoodoo1

C19: variant of voodoo
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The Bulls have lost a second URC final in succession, having fallen to Glasgow last year, but it was Leinster's day as they got over their final hoodoo.

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There’s dread in the hoodoo mysticism that blues voices like Sammie’s have — voices with the power, like Orpheus, to unite the living and the dead.

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Joined by a lyrical harmonica and Caton’s vocals, it’s music that almost lets the audience smell the cotton fields and country roads and smoke-filled hoodoo huts.

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So I may as well say a hoodoo like this one will continue and City will get over the line, even if Newcastle do definitely have a goal or two in them.

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She was superb against an off-colour Swiatek earlier in the week to put her quarter-final hoodoo behind her - but she started terribly against Muchova, much to the shock of the crowd.

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