Hoodoos [verb]
Definition of Hoodoos:
jinx
Sentence/Example of Hoodoos:
Before I'd gone five miles the hoodoo that had been working overtime on my behalf got busy again.
He lives about two miles and a half down the Junction City Highway and he is a hoodoo man.
A sure 'hoodoo' it must be, to warp a man's judgment like that!
He explored and reported upon the Hoodoo region, and first called prominent attention to the noble caon of the Middle Gardiner.
I knowed you want no good the first time I set eyes on yer, a-sayin hoodoo words over the poor dumb beast.
The "Thirteen" hoodoo came near to finding believers among those on the Knickerbocker before Cuba was reached.
The Virginian broke off a piece of the Hoodoo mud-rock from the weird eroded pillar that we stood beside.
Silent hoodoo sentinels were they frowning down upon the trail at their feet.
He said nothing could be simpler, but when he lifted it, it began to fall all apart, like a clock in the house of the Hoodoo.
Both remembered in the same moment his quizzical complaint that this man was his hoodoo.