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basins

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?be?s?nz/

Noun

basins

  1. plural of basin

Verb

basins

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of basin

Anagrams

  • nisbas, sabins

French

Noun

basins ?

  1. plural of basin

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hoodoo

English

Etymology

Apparently an alteration of voodoo.

Noun

hoodoo (countable and uncountable, plural hoodoos)

  1. (chiefly US) A practitioner of voodoo.
  2. (chiefly US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
  3. (geology) A tall thin spire of rock that protrudes from the bottom of arid basins and badlands.
    • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 71:
      It was even larger than the mirage made it look—a dozen miles across and a thousand feet deep, with fins and towers and hoodoos like observation posts, mesas and minor buttes, springs flowing brightly in the red rock.

Synonyms

  • (spire of rock): tent rock, fairy chimney, earth pyramid

Translations

Verb

hoodoo (third-person singular simple present hoodoos, present participle hoodooing, simple past and past participle hoodooed)

  1. (transitive) To jinx; to bring bad luck or misfortune to.

References

  • “hoodoo”, Bill Casselman

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