plural hoodoos
1
: a body of practices of sympathetic magic traditional especially among African Americans in the southern U.S.
2
: a natural column of rock in western North America often in fantastic form
3
: something that brings bad luck
hoodooed; hoodooing; hoodoos
: to cast a spell on
broadly
: to bring bad luck to
Examples of hoodoo in a Sentence
Noun
some economists have characterized the proposal as economic hoodoo that should be hooted down
some hoodoo must be at work—I lost both sets of house keys
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Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
In the division’s other game on Sunday, Aston Villa’s 3-1 victory at home against Fulham, also coming back from a goal down, maintained the London side’s hoodoo at Villa Park.
—Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Tracing the contours of the Rio Grande through Big Bend Ranch State Park, the River Road passes hoodoos and a dizzying overlook called the Big Hill.
—Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
As in the never-ending parade of ostensibly Christian exorcism movies, religious belief here seems like a superficial excuse for a stock array of supernatural hoodoo — no matter how many times Chalik’s Abuyya pauses the action to mouth some healing doctrine.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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Noun
One of the simplest rituals of adornment in hoodoo traditions is our use of color!
—Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
In the division’s other game on Sunday, Aston Villa’s 3-1 victory at home against Fulham, also coming back from a goal down, maintained the London side’s hoodoo at Villa Park.
—Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Tracing the contours of the Rio Grande through Big Bend Ranch State Park, the River Road passes hoodoos and a dizzying overlook called the Big Hill.
—Eva Frederick, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2025
As in the never-ending parade of ostensibly Christian exorcism movies, religious belief here seems like a superficial excuse for a stock array of supernatural hoodoo — no matter how many times Chalik’s Abuyya pauses the action to mouth some healing doctrine.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Hoodoo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hoodoo. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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