Voodoo

noun, plural voodoos.
1.
Also, vodun. a polytheistic religion practiced chiefly by West Indians, deriving principally from African cult worship and containing elements borrowed from the Catholic religion.
2.
a person who practices this religion.
3.
a fetish or other object of voodoo worship.
4.
a group of magical and ecstatic rites associated with voodoo.
5.
(not in technical use) black magic; sorcery.
adjective
6.
of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo.
7.
Informal. characterized by deceptively simple, almost as if magical, solutions or ideas:
voodoo economics.
verb (used with object), voodooed, voodooing.
8.
to affect by voodoo sorcery.
noun (pl) -doos
1.
Also called voodooism. a religious cult involving witchcraft and communication by trance with ancestors and animistic deities, common in Haiti and other Caribbean islands
2.
a person who practises voodoo
3.
a charm, spell, or fetish involved in voodoo worship and ritual
adjective
4.
relating to or associated with voodoo
verb -doos, -dooing, -dooed
5.
(transitive) to affect by or as if by the power of voodoo

voodoo definition

A form of animism involving trances and other rituals. Communication with the dead is a principal feature of voodoo. It is most common in the nations of the Caribbean Sea, especially Haiti, where people sometimes mingle voodoo and Christian practices.