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voodoo
(encz) | voodoo,čarodějnický kult pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
voodoo
(encz) | voodoo,čáry pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
voodoo
(encz) | voodoo,černošský kouzelník pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
voodoo
(encz) | voodoo,kouzelník pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
voodoo
(encz) | voodoo,modla pcernoch@imc.cas.cz |
Voodoo
(gcide) | Voodoo \Voo"doo\, n.
1. See Voodooism.
[1913 Webster]
2. One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
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Voodoo
(gcide) | Voodoo \Voo"doo\, a.
Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo
incantations.
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voodoo
(wn) | voodoo
n 1: a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
[syn: juju, voodoo, hoodoo, fetish, fetich]
2: (Haiti) followers of a religion that involves witchcraft and
animistic deities
3: a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries
(especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities
[syn: voodoo, vodoun, voodooism, hoodooism]
v 1: bewitch by or as if by a voodoo |
voodoo
(vera) | VOODOO
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voodooism
(encz) | voodooism,čarodějnictví n: Zdeněk Brož |
Voodoo
(gcide) | Voodoo \Voo"doo\, n.
1. See Voodooism.
[1913 Webster]
2. One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.
[1913 Webster]Voodoo \Voo"doo\, a.
Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo
incantations.
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Voodoo economics
(gcide) | Voodoo economics \Voo"doo economics\, n. (Politics)
an economic hypothesis, proposed by President Ronald Regan,
that large cuts in tax rates would so stimulate the economy
that the tax revenue on the increases in business and
personal income would offset the anticipated tax revenue
losses, so that such tax cuts would not increasing the
federal budget deficit. Its believers do not consider the
actual massive deficit increases subsequent to the 1982-83
tax cut as being caused by the tax cut itself, but by other
governmental policies. This hypothesis was graphically
illustrated by the Laffer curve.
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Voodooism
(gcide) | Voodooism \Voo"doo*ism\, n. [Probably (through Creole French
vaudoux a negro sorcerer) fr. F. Vaudois Waldensian, because
the Waldenses were accused of sorcery.]
A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include
human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is
prevalent among the negroes of Haiti, and to some extent in
the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African
barbarism.
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voodooism
(wn) | voodooism
n 1: a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries
(especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic
deities [syn: voodoo, vodoun, voodooism, hoodooism] |
voodoo programming
(foldoc) | voodoo programming
(From George Bush's "voodoo economics") The use by
guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy system, feature, or
algorithm that one does not truly understand. The implication
is that the technique may not work, and if it doesn't, one
will never know why. Almost synonymous with black magic,
except that black magic typically isn't documented and
*nobody* understands it.
Compare magic, deep magic, heavy wizardry, rain dance,
cargo cult programming, wave a dead chicken.
[Jargon File]
(1995-03-10)
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scsi voodoo
(jargon) | SCSI voodoo
/skuz'ee voo´doo/
[common among Mac users] SCSI interface hardware is notoriously fickle of
temperament. Often, the SCSI bus will fail to work unless the cable order
of devices is re-arranged, SCSI termination is added or removed (sometimes
double-termination or no termination will fix the problem), or particular
devices are given particular SCSI IDs. The skills needed to trick the
naturally skittish demons of SCSI into working are collectively known as
SCSI voodoo. Compare magic, deep magic, heavy wizardry, rain dance,
cargo cult programming, wave a dead chicken, voodoo programming.
While ordinary mortals frequently experience near-terminal frustration when
attempting to configure SCSI device chains, it is said that a true master
of this arcane art can (through rituals involving chicken blood, ground
rhino horn, hairs of a virgin, eye of newt, etc.) hook up your personal
computer with three scanners, a Zip drive, an IDE hard drive, a home
weather station, a Smith-Corona typewriter, and the neighbor's garage door.
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voodoo programming
(jargon) | voodoo programming
n.
[from George Bush Sr.'s “voodoo economics”]
1. The use by guess or cookbook of an obscure or hairy system, feature,
or algorithm that one does not truly understand. The implication is that
the technique may not work, and if it doesn't, one will never know why.
Almost synonymous with black magic, except that black magic typically
isn't documented and nobody understands it. Compare magic, deep magic,
heavy wizardry, rain dance, cargo cult programming, {wave a dead
chicken}, SCSI voodoo.
2. Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway,
and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.
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