Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

out the wazoo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.12 in modern English

Syllables: out- the wa-zoo
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

Excessive(ly), too much.

Colloquial

prep_phrase

Abundantly, to spare.

Example Sentences

"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 plague much of the web.”"
"In those days they had adopted tobacco as a cash crop and had cash out the wazoo within a decade."

Usage

Colloquial

Phrases

up the ass

Frequently Paired Words

up the ass

Synonyms

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

Questions

What does out the wazoo mean?: Excessive(ly), too much.

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