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- Dictionaryhoodoo/ˈhuːduː/
noun
- 1. a run of bad luck associated with a particular person, group, or activity: "the hoodoo continued on Saturday as City went down 1–0"
- 2. a column or pinnacle of weathered rock: North American "a towering sandstone hoodoo"
verb
- 1. bewitch: "she's hoodooed you"
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a set of magical beliefs and practices that originally belonged to West Africans brought to North America and the Caribbean as slaves, which are linked to the religion of voodoo: Haitian folklore told tales of dead people whose bodies were awakened by hoodoo. Compare. voodoo.
1. : a body of practices of sympathetic magic traditional especially among African Americans in the southern U.S. 2. : a natural column of rock in western North America often in fantastic form. 3. : something that brings bad luck. 4. : nonsense, hokum. hoodooism.
a set of magical beliefs and practices that originally belonged to West Africans brought to North America and the Caribbean as slaves, which are linked to the religion of voodoo: Haitian folklore told tales of dead people whose bodies were awakened by hoodoo. Compare. voodoo. [ C or U ] informal.
Definition of 'hoodoo' Word Frequency. hoodoo in British English. (ˈhuːduː ) noun Word forms: plural -doos. 1. a variant of voodoo. 2. informal. a person or thing that brings bad luck. 3. informal. bad luck. 4. (in the western US and Canada) a strangely shaped column of rock. verb Word forms: -doos, -dooing, -dooed. 5. (transitive) informal.
Hoodoo definition: African American folk magic practiced predominantly in the southeastern United States through rituals of protection, herbal medicine, charming of objects, and ancestor veneration.. See examples of HOODOO used in a sentence.
1. a. Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean. Also called conjure. b. A practitioner of hoodoo. 2. Voodoo. 3. a. Bad luck. b. One that brings bad luck. 4. Geology A column of eccentrically shaped rock, produced by differential weathering. tr.v. hoo·dooed, hoo·doo·ing, hoo·doos. 1.
IPA guide. Other forms: hoodooed; hoodoos; hoodooing. Definitions of hoodoo. noun. a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers. synonyms: fetich, fetish, juju, voodoo. see more. noun. something believed to bring bad luck.
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hoodoo noun & adjective. Meaning & use. Originally U.S. regional ( southern, esp. in African American usage). noun. 1.a. 1868–. Any of various systems of spiritual or magical practice established among certain communities in the southern United States; (also more generally) magic, witchcraft.
Definition of hoodoo noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
