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    [Noun]  | "hoo*doo" | \ ˈhü-(ˌ)dü \


    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


    Origin: 1865 ;

     Perhaps alteration of voodoo;

    [Verb]  | "hoodoo" 


    1: to cast a spell on; broadly : to bring bad luck to


    Origin: 1868 ;

    [Noun]  | "hoodoo" 


    1: language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense;


      * e.g., " ... some economists have characterized the proposal as economic hoodoo that should be hooted down "



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    2: something that brings bad luck;


      * e.g., " ... some hoodoo must be at work—I lost both sets of house keys "



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     [ "hoodoo" ]

    1: 1) An odd formation of rock formed in a column 2) A type of witchcraft 3) A person that you have an underlying deep connection with

      * e.g.,  ... 1) Let’s go see the hoodoos and gale some pictures! 2) That hoodoo stuff is so creepy. 3) Wow I think I found a hoodoo. 

     [ "hoodooed" ]

    1: African based folk Magic and control practiced in the U.S. and Caribbean, usually used to bring bad luck.

      * e.g.,  ... Keith admitted that he had been hoodooed, reinstated the ticket and asked the Administrative Office of the Courts to send a judge and a prosecutor from outside Forsyth County to handle the matter once and for all. 

     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    1:  An folk magic tradition, a mixture of Voodoo and folk traditions with its source in the Deep South. Usually involves charms, potions, spells, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... "He be a Hoodoo" 


     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    2:  A person who practices this type of folk magic or Voodoo

      * e.g.,  ... "Im goin to do some Hoodoo on him" 


     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    3:  Often used to mean the same as Voodoo.

     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    1:  Religion -> Pretty much same as voodoo.

      * e.g.,  ...  Some people believe in Hoodoo. 


     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    2:  Bad luck or misfortune.

      * e.g.,  ...  Having Hoodoo sucks. 


     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    3:  Somebody or something believed to bring bad luck.

      * e.g.,  ...  Being a Hoodoo sucks too. 


     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    4:  Oddly-shaped rock column: a column of rock that has been weathered into a strange shape.

      * e.g.,  ...  Hoodoo rocks are oddly shaped. 

     [ "Hoodoos" ]

    1: A word often used by people with an extra chromosome.

      * e.g.,  ... Example: Hoodoos cunt! 

     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    1: A sporting term referring to a team's unbroken streak of victories over another team, often at a certain ground. Most often used in reference to the Canberra Raiders' 14 year streak of home ground victories against St. George Illawarra.

      * e.g.,  ... A hat-trick to St George Illawarra stand-in captain Brett Morris helped smash a 14-season hoodoo in the nation's capital with a 34-16 victory over Canberra on Saturday. 

     [ "Hoodoo" ]

    1: Mountain Nipple

      * e.g.,  ... “Look at that mountain’s large Hoodoo’s! Burr! 

     [ "hoodoo brown" ]

    1: Awesome guy who appears in the video game GUN. He is the current mayor of the town Empire and also corrupt. He tries to kill the main character, Colton White, but fails and is brutally annihilated by Colton. His corpse can later be seen in a coffin in the town square.

      * e.g.,  ... Hoodoo: I'm Hoodoo Brown! 

     [ "American Hoodoo" ]

    1: American Hoodoo is a set of spiritual practices, traditions, and beliefs that were created by enslaved Melanated American Aboriginals in the Southern United States from various traditional hebraic spiritualities, regarding the Popol Vuh, Mormonism and elements of Mayan, Aztecah indigenous botanical knowledge. Practitioners of Hoodoo are called root workers, conjure doctors, conjure man or conjure woman, root doctors, shaman, Hoodoo doctors, and swampers. Regional synonyms for Hoodoo include conjure or rootwork. Many Hoodoo traditions draw from the beliefs of Cuauhtēmallān people of Central America in guatamala.

      * e.g.,  ... American Hoodoo is The most well-known American folk magic that originated from Melanated American Aboriginal slaves and is called Hoodoo. There are other names for it such as root-work and conjure. Hoodoo is a spiritual practice that stemmed from a mixture of Melanated American Aborigines and Siberian Native American mongoloid traditions; however, it’s NOT the same thing as Voodoo. Voodoo is a religion, not a spiritual practice. The American spiritual practice of Hoodoo has its roots in the Deep South of the U.S. – from Louisiana to Alabama, from Mississippi to Georgia. 

     [ "curio hoodoo" ]

    1: esoteric, spiritual object or knowledge

      * e.g.,  ... I recently bought a bit of curio hoodoo 

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