hoodoo
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du noun
1.
2.
bad luck.
3.
a person or thing that brings bad luck.
4.
Geology. a pillar of rock, usually of fantastic shape, left by erosion.
verb (used with object)
5.
to bring or cause bad luck to.
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Hoodoo
is always a great word to know.
So is strata. Does it mean:
| single bed of sedimentary rock, consisting of one kind of matter representing continuous deposition |
| portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus |
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hoodoo (ˈhuːduː) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -doos | |
| 1. | a variant of voodoo |
| 2. | informal a person or thing that brings bad luck |
| 3. | informal bad luck |
| 4. | (in the western US and Canada) a strangely shaped column of rock |
| —vb , -doos, -doos, -dooing, -dooed | |
| 5. | informal (tr) to bring bad luck to |
| [C19: variant of | |
| 'hoodooism | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
hoodoo
1875, "one who practices voodoo," Amer.Eng., probably an alteration of voodoo. Meaning "something that causes or brings bad luck" is attested from 1882.
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Example sentences
And for a few yen a miniature scroll of oracular hoodoo can be had.
His inability to empathize with common folk had long been his hoary hoodoo.
Hoodoo is a form of predominantly africanamerican traditional folk magic.
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