out the wazoo

English

Prepositional phrase

out the wazoo

1. (colloquial) Excessive(ly); too much.

   I planted a few seeds and had radishes out the wazoo within a month.

   • 2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     The photo-sharing site was riddled with fake accounts that liked, followed and hashtagged out the wazoo. Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that plague much of the web.”

Synonyms

• out the ass
• out the ying yang
• out the yin yang
• through the wazoo
• up the yin yang
• up the wazoo

Translations

excessive or excessively; too much

• Dutch: a volonte
• Russian: дофига́́ (ru) (dofigá́), огро́мный (ru) (ogrómnyj)

See also

• up the ass