Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The anus.
  • idiom (up the wazoo) In great abundance.

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  • noun vulgar the anus; ass

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps alteration of kazoo.]

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probably a variant of kazoo

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Examples

  • I haven't really played with Posterous yet, but John Haydon says it's the bomb-diggity for automatically re-posting content out the wazoo, which is good enough for me!

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • I haven't really played with Posterous yet, but John Haydon says it's the bomb-diggity for automatically re-posting content out the wazoo, which is good enough for me!

    Always the Last to Know: Posterous 2010

  • Be careful of any fish oil that smells/tastes rancid and it goes bad very fast and then produces free radicals up the wazoo, which is very counterproductive if you're taking these things for your health!

    Archive 2006-07-01 GreenFertility 2006

  • Be careful of any fish oil that smells/tastes rancid and it goes bad very fast and then produces free radicals up the wazoo, which is very counterproductive if you're taking these things for your health!

    Recommended Fish Oils GreenFertility 2006

  • In celebration of the blogiversary, I’ve fixed a number of templates (MT has templates up the wazoo, which is unfortunate when making minor changes in appearances.

    2006 January 20 « Compulsive Knitter 2006

  • In celebration of the blogiversary, I’ve fixed a number of templates (MT has templates up the wazoo, which is unfortunate when making minor changes in appearances.

    2006 January « Compulsive Knitter 2006

  • In celebration of the blogiversary, I’ve fixed a number of templates (MT has templates up the wazoo, which is unfortunate when making minor changes in appearances.

    Happy blogiversary to me! « Compulsive Knitter 2006

  • "Air planes are stacked up the 'wazoo' up there trying to get down here," one colonel said just before his troops exited the C-17.

    Mudville Gazette 2010

  • Sadly for this brand, E*TRADE pretty much set the definition for "wazoo" with their 2000 Super Bowl spot.

    Adland 2009

  • Sadly for this brand, E*TRADE pretty much set the definition for "wazoo" with their 2000 Super Bowl spot.

    Adland 2009

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  • What things come out of.

    January 23, 2008

  • Not to be confused with Yazoo City, Miss., out of which little more than Amtrak, the River of Death, a few odd movie references, and a lot of kudzu seems to come.

    January 23, 2008

  • As opposed to context?

    January 23, 2008

  • Hm. If context is what things are taken out of, and wazoo what things come out of, does this mean that the next time someone asks for some context, I should tell them to go look up their wazoo?

    January 23, 2008

  • You might want to consider the audience first, Asativum. ;-)

    January 23, 2008

  • I think that the wazoo is a kind of metaphysical black hole, which exerts a warping effect on space and time in its vicinity, thus making the correct choice of associated preposition difficult, if not downright impossible.

    Or maybe it's just a favorite watering hole of kazoo players in Kalamazoo.

    January 23, 2008