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hoodoo
[hoo-doo]
noun
plural
hoodoosHoodoo. African American folk magic practiced predominantly in the southeastern United States through rituals of protection, herbal medicine, charming of objects, and ancestor veneration.
(in popular culture) bad luck, or a person or thing that brings bad luck.
Geology.a pillar of rock, usually of fantastic shape, left by erosion.
verb (used with object)
(in popular culture) to bring or cause bad luck to.
hoodoo
/ ˈːː /
noun
a variant of voodoo
informala person or thing that brings bad luck
informalbad luck
(in the western US and Canada) a strangely shaped column of rock
verb
informal(tr) to bring bad luck to
Other Word Forms
- ˈǴǻǴǾ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of hoodoo1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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