(chiefly, US) A practitioner of voodoo.
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(uncountable) A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.
The three men wondered whether they would find Colson at Taylor's Creek. They felt that a hoodoo hung over the place.
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(chiefly, US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a L…
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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