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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apparently an alteration of voodoo.
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Noun
[edit]hoodoo (countable and uncountable, plural hoodoos)
- (uncountable) A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
- (chiefly US) A practitioner of voodoo.
- (chiefly US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
- (geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 71:
- It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.
Synonyms
[edit]- (spire of rock): tent rock, fairy chimney, earth pyramid
Translations
[edit]spire of rock
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Verb
[edit]hoodoo (third-person singular simple present hoodoos, present participle hoodooing, simple past and past participle hoodooed)
- (transitive) To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.
References
[edit]- “hoodoo”, Bill Casselman