hoodoo

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  1. noun Magic healing and control, especially in African-based folk medicine in the United States and the Caribbean. Also called conjure.
  2. noun A practitioner of hoodoo.
  3. noun Voodoo.
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  • It put me in mind of Robin through being so unlike his hoodoo picture, and I wondered for all of ten seconds what that had been all about. —  Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March-April 2005
  • He was apparently greatly feared or considered a hoodoo, or something. —  049 - The Mental Wizard
  • Don't you dare come near me with your voodoo hoodoo, freak! —  Planet Atheism
  • "We had always previously done badly at Anfield in the Champions League, but that hoodoo was broken last year (when they drew 1-1 before winning on aggregate), we got that out of the way because we'd had so many bad moments before against Liverpool," he said. —  ITN Headlines
  • Another plus for the Lions in their bid to end the Swans hoodoo is the absence of clever forward Michael O'Loughlin and the injury cloud hanging over Barry Hall. —  AFL Latest News and Broadband
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  1. Of West African origin, possibly from voodoo.

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  1. An irreg. variant of voodoo, or so regarded.
 

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