voodoo

Speech parts

1. voodoo - Noun

2. voodoo - Adjective

3. voodoo - Verb

Meaning

See Voodooism.

One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.

Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.

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Examples

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well. Dalton Trumbo

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. Wyclef Jean

It just isn't going to work, and it's very interesting that the man who invented this type of what I call a voodoo economic policy is Art Laffer, a California economist. George H. W. Bush

That is all there is to it. No doubts, no discussion of earlier affairs, no to-ing and fro-ing, no physical experiment beyond a kiss, none of the complex voodoo which is thought necessary in even the most perfunctory modern novel to clap two ninnies together. Robertson Davies

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. Terry Pratchett

My schoolmates could not understand why anyone would want to write a story; and, above all, they could not understand why I had called it The Voodoo of Hell's Half-Acre. The mood out of which a story was written was the most alien thing conceivable to them. Richard Wright

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