Hoodoo

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean.
  • noun. A practitioner of hoodoo.
  • noun. Voodoo.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Bad luck.
  • noun. One that brings bad luck.
  • noun. A column of eccentrically shaped rock, produced by differential weathering.
  • transitive verb. To practice hoodoo on; affect with a charm or curse.
  • transitive verb. To bring bad luck to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Same as voodoo.
  • To bring or cause bad luck to, as a person or an enterprise.
  • noun. Same as voodoo.
  • noun. [From the verb.] A bewitchment; an occult cause of bad luck; hence, a person supposed to bring bad luck: opposed to mascot.
  • noun. A name given in the northwestern United States to certain grotesque columns, the products of volcanic action and erosion, left standing on the slopes of mountains and in deep gulches.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.
  • noun. One who causes bad luck.
  • noun. Same as voodoo.
  • noun. Bad luck.
  • transitive verb. To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. African traditional folk magic.
  • noun. A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
  • noun. Something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
  • verb. To bring bad luck or misfortune, to jinx.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune
  • noun. (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock
  • noun. a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
  • noun. a practitioner of voodoo
  • noun. something believed to bring bad luck
  • Word Usage
    "LOL A hoodoo is a swamp critter thatll eatcha up especially at night in the deep dark swamp!!"
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    voodoo  
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