vudu/ [voo-doo]
[noun, plural-doos, adjective, verb,-dooed, -doo·ing.]
–noun
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. of, pertaining to, associated with, or practicing voodoo.
Informal:
Usually Disparaging. characterized by deceptively simple, almost magical, solutions or ideas: voodoo politics.Origin:
1810–20, Americanism; < LaF, earlier vandoux, vandoo < a West African source perh. akin to Ewe vodũ demon
Tattoo Artists:: Jay Baxter, John Lally , Joey Rossi got crazy Voodoo ;o)