EGAVE

hoodoo

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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.
  2. noun A practitioner of voodoo.
  3. noun Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
  4. noun A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
  5. verb To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

Similar words

juju voodoo fetish fetich hex neo hoodooist hounsi ounsi hoochie

Often followed by

in and man is doctor on doctors brown woman

Word family

hoodooed hoodooing hoodooism hoodooisms hoodoos

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