1.  hoodoo(n = noun.shape) - (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock; "a tall sandstone hoodoo"
is a kind of column, pillar, tower

2.  hoodoo(n = noun.person) - a practitioner of voodoo;
is a kind of hoodooism, vodoun, voodoo, voodooism, non-christian priest, priest
Derived form verb hoodoo₁

3.  hoodoo(n = noun.artifact) fetich, fetish, juju, voodoo - a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers;
is a kind of charm, good luck charm
Derived form verb hoodoo₁

4.  hoodoo(n = noun.artifact) - something believed to bring bad luck;
is a kind of object, physical object
Derived form verb hoodoo₁

   hoodoo(v = verb.stative) - bring bad luck; be a source of misfortune;
is one way to be
Derived forms noun hoodoo₄, noun hoodoo₃, noun hoodoo₂
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s

1.  One who causes bad luck. [1913 Webster]

2.  Same as voodoo. [PJC]

3.  Bad luck. [PJC]

   To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

hoodoo, n. & v. esp. US
--n.
1 a bad luck. b a thing or person that brings or causes this.
2 voodoo.
3 a fantastic rock pinnacle or column of rock formed by erosion etc.
--v.tr. (hoodoos, hoodooed)
1 make unlucky.
2 bewitch.

Etymology:
alt. of VOODOO

N  badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.

N  sorcery, occult art, occult sciences, magic, the black art, necromancy, theurgy, thaumaturgy, demonology, demonomy, demonship, diablerie, bedevilment, witchcraft, witchery, glamor, fetishism, fetichism, feticism, ghost dance, hoodoo, obi, obiism, voodoo, voodooism, Shamanism (Esquimaux), vampirism, conjuration, bewitchery, exorcism, enchantment, mysticism, second sight, mesmerism, animal magnetism, od force, odylic force, electrobiology, clairvoyance, spiritualism, spirit rapping, table turning, divination, sortilege, ordeal, sortes Virgilianae, hocus-pocus, magic, magical, mystic, weird, cabalistic, talismanic, phylacteric, incantatory, charmed, Circean, odylic, voodoo.

VB  practice sorcery, cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant, bewitch, bedevil, hoodoo, voodoo, entrance, mesmerize, magnetize, fascinate, taboo, wave a wand, rub the ring, rub the lamp, cast a spell, call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep, raise spirits from the dead.

N  sorcerer, magician, thaumaturgist, theurgist, conjuror, necromancer, seer, wizard, witch, hoodoo, voodoo, fairy, lamia, hag, warlock, charmer, exorcist, mage, cunning man, medicine man, Shaman, figure flinger, ecstatica, medium, clairvoyant, fortune teller, mesmerist, deus ex machina, soothsayer, Katerfelto, Cagliostro, Mesmer, Rosicrucian, Circe, siren, weird sisters.