plural voodoos
1
: of, relating to, or practicing voodoo
voodoo rituals
2
: based on highly improbable suppositions : extremely implausible or unrealistic
voodoo economics
Examples of voodoo in a Sentence
Noun
found a voodoo who was willing to put a hex on the man who had jilted her
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Thanks to such voodoo carbon accounting, sellers of forest carbon offsets elsewhere are having to refund buyers due to unmet growth projections.
—John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
After his second round at the Genesis Scottish Open, McIlroy put some voodoo magic out in the universe with his comments on the potential of Keegan Bradley being a playing captain for Team USA.
—Savannah Leigh Richardson, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Despite his clearly enjoying killing people for personal reasons, the movie’s Kraven seems to think of himself as a kind of antihero, which voodoo practitioner Calypso (Ariana DeBose) rightfully clocks as a red flag.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 20 June 2023
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Noun
The problem is that Tipping — using lots of quick cuts, booming music cues, flashing X-rays of injuries and occult-style voodoo horror tropes — fails to run up any numbers on the scoreboard.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Thanks to such voodoo carbon accounting, sellers of forest carbon offsets elsewhere are having to refund buyers due to unmet growth projections.
—John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Thanks to such voodoo carbon accounting, sellers of forest carbon offsets elsewhere are having to refund buyers due to unmet growth projections.
—John P. O’Brien, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
After his second round at the Genesis Scottish Open, McIlroy put some voodoo magic out in the universe with his comments on the potential of Keegan Bradley being a playing captain for Team USA.
—Savannah Leigh Richardson, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025
Verb
More on culture An Eagles fan brought a Patrick Mahomes voodoo doll to the Super Bowl.
—Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
Despite his clearly enjoying killing people for personal reasons, the movie’s Kraven seems to think of himself as a kind of antihero, which voodoo practitioner Calypso (Ariana DeBose) rightfully clocks as a red flag.
—Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 20 June 2023
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“Voodoo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voodoo. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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