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n. A creature of Caribbean mythology similar to a vampire or werewolf.
Usage examples of "loogaroo".
Maxton said something I didn't understand--defying him, I reckoned--and this fellow said he'd already set the loogaroos on scores of families.
Maxton asked him what if a white man had, and Fetch picked up a piece of wood--a Y-shaped stick with hair and beads tied to it, and pointed it at me (he'd guessed I was the leader) and said he was going to put the loogaroos on me and my master that very minute.
Maxton said something I didn't understand—defying him, I reckoned—and this fellow said he'd already set the loogaroos on scores of families.
Maxton asked him what if a white man had, and Fetch picked up a piece of wood—a Y-shaped stick with hair and beads tied to it, and pointed it at me (he'd guessed I was the leader) and said he was going to put the loogaroos on me and my master that very minute.