woo woo

• IPA^(key): /wuː.wuː/

Uncertain. It has been suggested that "woo woo" is intended to imitate the eerie background music of sci-fi/horror films and television shows.

• woo-woo
• woo
• woowoo

woo woo (countable and uncountable, plural woo woos)

1. (slang) A person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.

   That reporter is a bit of a woo woo.

2. (slang) Those beliefs.

   He is really into all that woo woo.

   • Erikson Physocialsocial Stages

     Social work has gotten distinctly woo-woo lately. There's a lot of endorsement of quackery. I think that might be because the social work profession has attracted a lot of people who don't want to do science, or maybe because there is a big market for woo-woo stuff.

woo woo (comparative more woo woo, superlative most woo woo)

1. (slang) Supernatural, pseudoscientific.

   He made a living out of woo woo beliefs.

2. (slang) Describing a person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.

   Pert is a talented scientist who went woo woo many years ago for reasons I don’t have time to go into here.[1]

• Merriam-Webster Dictionary (added February 2017)
• Skeptic's Dictionary
• Double-Tongued Dictionary
• Watching you (archived version)
• Insolitology (The Woo-Woo Dictionary)
• The Woo-Woo Stuff: Musings on the Metaphysical (archived version)
• Straight Dope Message Board: From whence and when did the term "Woo" as a term for crackpottery come to prominence?, post 36

Unknown.

woo woo (plural woo woos)

1. An alcoholic cocktail consisting of peach schnapps, vodka and cranberry juice.

Imitative of a siren.

woo woo (plural woo woos)

1. (childish) the sound of a fire truck, ambulance, or police truck's siren.