voodoo

noun

1. 1

   Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.

   Years later, she had found out about the Voodoo drink - a concoction of rum, gunpowder, grave-dirt and human blood. She almost retched as the taste came back to her mouth.

   You cannot understand Haitian Vodou as it is practised today without first knowing something about the culture from which it sprang, and the ways history has shaped religion, and vice versa.

2. 2

   The spiritual beliefs of the Ewe/Fon of West Africa, practiced chiefly in Benin and in the south of Togo.

3. 3

   Any sort of magical or irrational approach to a problem.

   I want a real explanation, not this statistical voodoo.

4. 4

   datedOne who practices voodoo; a native sorcerer.

   So a reporter of the Boston Herald (U.S.) has 'interviewed' a few local Voodoos. He has seen a dance round a boiling pot, seen some tomfoolery with spiders, and heard a lot of superstitious stories.

verb

1. 1

   To bewitch someone or something using voodoo

   He claimed his neighbor had voodooed him.

Forms

plural

voodoos

past tense

voodooed

past participle

voodooed

present participle

voodooing

third person singular

voodoos