hoodoo
Noun
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Noun
hoodoo
- (chiefly, US) A practitioner of voodoo.
- (chiefly, US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
- (geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 71:
- It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.
- 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 71:
- (spire of rock) tent rock, fairy chimney, earth pyramid
- French: cheminée de fée
- German: Erdpyramide
- Portuguese: chaminé de fada
- Russian: худу
- Spanish: chimenea de hadas
hoodoo (hoodoos, present participle hoodooing; past and past participle hoodooed)
- (transitive) To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.
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