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Hoodoo

verb
1.
Bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune.



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"Hoodoo" Quotes from Famous Books



... an' thar's our pretty hoodoo over thar to feed an' amoose," remarked Shady Jones, with a smile that ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey
... this Ryder vamos is the greatest public improvement Wolfville's experienced since the lynchin' of Far Creek Stanton. You-all ain't s'fficiently on the quee vee, as they says in French, to be aware of the m'lignant atmospheres of this yere Ryder. He'd hoodoo a hill, or a pine-tree, Ryder would, let alone anythin' as onstable as my methods of buckin' faro-bank. Gone to Red Dog, has he? Bueno! He leaves us an' attaches himse'f to our enemies. I'll bet a pinto hoss that somethin' ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis
... hoodoo on this block," Johnny observed as they were caught in the traffic crush almost in ...
— Five Thousand an Hour - How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress • George Randolph Chester


Words linked to "Hoodoo" :   geology, good luck charm, physical object, non-Christian priest, charm, object, vodoun, fetish, voodooism, be, pillar, voodoo, column, tower, juju, priest, hoodooism, fetich


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