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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. examples
(chiefly US) A practitioner of voodoo. examples
(chiefly US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck. examples
(geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands. quotations
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.
2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 71
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. examples