out the wazoo

prepositional phrase

Excessive(ly), too much.

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

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prepositional phrase
  1. colloquialExcessive(ly), too much.

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

    1 more example

    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.”

    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.

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Translations

Dutch a volonte
  • a volonteexcessive or excessively; too much
Polish w ogromnym stopniu
  • w ogromnym stopniuexcessive or excessively; too much
Russian дофига́́, огро́мный
  • дофига́́ (dofigá́)excessive or excessively; too much
  • огро́мный (ogrómnyj)excessive or excessively; too much
Cite this entry
APA

out the wazoo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20the%20wazoo

MLA

“out the wazoo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20the%20wazoo. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “out the wazoo,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20the%20wazoo.

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