[voo-doo] 
noun, plural -doos, adjective, verb, -dooed, -doo⋅ing.| 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. |
| 6. | of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo. |
| 7. | Informal: Usually Disparaging. characterized by deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo politics. |
| 8. | to affect by voodoo sorcery. |
| vo·doun or vo·dun (vō-dōōn') n. See voodoo. [Haitian Creole, from Ewe vodu or Fon vodun.] |
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.