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out the wazoo

out the wazoo prepositional phrase: excessive(ly), too much.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (colloquial) Excessive(ly), too much.
    • I planted a few seeds and had radishes out the wazoo within a month.
    • 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...2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post
  2. Abundantly, to spare.
    • In those days they had adopted tobacco as a cash crop and had cash out the wazoo within a decade.

Synonyms of out the wazoo

Questions about out the wazoo

What does out the wazoo mean?
Out the wazoo means excessive(ly), too much.
What part of speech is out the wazoo?
Out the wazoo is a prepositional phrase.

Words near out the wazoo in the dictionary

  1. out over one's skis
  2. Out Rawcliffe
  3. out sick
  4. out the ass
  5. out the blue
  6. out the wazoo
  7. out the window
  8. out the ying yang
  9. out there
  10. out to
  11. out to get someone

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