hoodoo🔊

A set of spiritual practices and traditions created and concealed from slave-owners by enslaved Africans in North America, based on traditional African beliefs.

(US) A practitioner of voodoo.

(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.

To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.