"Indian sign" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 12, in The Little Nugget",
          "text": "You certainly are my jinx, sonny. You have hung the Indian sign on me all right.",
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          "ref": "1921, Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 6, in The Film Mystery",
          "text": "We have been jinxed with a vengeance. Some one has held the Indian sign on us for sure.",
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          "ref": "1947, Dark Passage (motion picture), Warner Brothers",
          "text": "Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart): Nah, I've got the Indian sign on me. It seems I can't win."
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          "ref": "1996, Mario Puzo, The Last Don, page 83",
          "text": "\"You're the only woman who ever had the Indian sign on me. I married late and I know I'll never marry again.\"",
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          "ref": "2018 June 25, David Hytner, “Mikel aiming to turn tables 13 years after Messi took his Golden Ball”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Argentina have held an Indian sign over Nigeria at World Cups going back to 1994, when the African nation first qualified.",
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        "A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck."
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          "will power",
          "will power"
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          "bad luck",
          "bad luck"
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        "(idiomatic, dated, mildly offensive) A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck."
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        {
          "word": "curse"
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        {
          "word": "hex"
        },
        {
          "word": "hoodoo"
        },
        {
          "word": "jinx"
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          "word": "spell"
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          "ref": "1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 12, in The Little Nugget",
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        {
          "ref": "1947, Dark Passage (motion picture), Warner Brothers",
          "text": "Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart): Nah, I've got the Indian sign on me. It seems I can't win."
        },
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          "ref": "2018 June 25, David Hytner, “Mikel aiming to turn tables 13 years after Messi took his Golden Ball”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Argentina have held an Indian sign over Nigeria at World Cups going back to 1994, when the African nation first qualified.",
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        "A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck."
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          "will power",
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          "bad luck",
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        "(idiomatic, dated, mildly offensive) A curse causing loss of will power or persistent bad luck."
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    {
      "word": "curse"
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    {
      "word": "hex"
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    {
      "word": "hoodoo"
    },
    {
      "word": "jinx"
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      "word": "spell"
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  "word": "Indian sign"
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