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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
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| tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other |
| capability of a porous rock or sediment to permit the flow of fluids through its pore spaces |
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| hoodoo (ˈhuːduː) | |
| —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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