different between hoopoo vs hoodoo

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hoopoo (plural hoopoos)

Apparently an alteration of voodoo.

hoodoo (countable and uncountable, plural hoodoos)

(chiefly US) A practitioner of voodoo.
(chiefly US) Supernatural bad luck, or something or someone believed to bring bad luck.
(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.

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

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