Hoodoo (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural hoo·doos.
  1. African American folk magic practiced predominantly in the southeastern United States through rituals of protection, herbal medicine, charming of objects, and ancestor veneration.
  2. (in popular culture) bad luck, or a person or thing that brings bad luck.
  3. a pillar of rock, usually of fantastic shape, left by erosion.
verb (used with object), hoo·dooed, hoo·doo·ing.
  1. (in popular culture) to bring or cause bad luck to.
noun plural -doos
  1. a variant of voodoo
  2. a person or thing that brings bad luck
  3. bad luck
  4. (in the western US and Canada) a strangely shaped column of rock
verb -doos, -dooing or -dooed
  1. to bring bad luck to
Hoodoo (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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