hoodoo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
A practitioner of voodoo.
Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.

verb

/ˈhuːduː/ /ˈhudu/ en-us-hoodoo.oga /ˈhʉdʉ/

hoodoo hoodoos hoodooing hoodooed

Apparently an alteration of voodoo.

tent rock fairy chimney earth pyramid

hoodooer hoodooism hoodooist

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