Hoodoo

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean. Also called conjure.
  • n. A practitioner of hoodoo.
  • n. Voodoo.
  • n. Bad luck.
  • n. One that brings bad luck.
  • n. Geology A column of eccentrically shaped rock, produced by differential weathering.
  • v. To practice hoodoo on; affect with a charm or curse.
  • v. To bring bad luck to.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. African traditional folk magic.
  • n. A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
  • n. Something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
  • v. To bring bad luck or misfortune, to jinx.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who causes bad luck.
  • n. Same as voodoo.
  • n. Bad luck.
  • v. To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch.
  • n. A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as voodoo.
  • n. [From the verb.] A bewitchment; an occult cause of bad luck; hence, a person supposed to bring bad luck: opposed to mascot.
  • n. 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.
  • Same as voodoo.
  • To bring or cause bad luck to, as a person or an enterprise.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune
  • n. (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock
  • n. a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
  • n. a practitioner of voodoo
  • n. something believed to bring bad luck
  • Verb Form
    hoodooed    hoodooing    hoodoos   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    be    tower    column    pillar    charm    good luck charm    non-christian priest    priest    vodoun    hoodooism   
    Variant
    voodoo   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bewitch    curse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aginst    befo'    ebery    yar    heah    hellion    vaudun    bery    minit    niggah