Phrases
up the wazoo
or less commonly out the wazoo
: in excess
we've got lawyers up the wazoo—
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Examples of wazoo in a Sentence
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As every aspiring writer is taught, drama is conflict, and, in technical terms, pickleball has drama out the wazoo.
—Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
The third chapter in the saga of Alex the lion (Ben Stiller) and his Central Park Zoo pals… has timing up the wazoo.
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2023
And keep in mind that there's no reason to make your equipment management processes a nightmare by tracking everything out the wazoo.
—Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2020
Style out the wazoo here.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
Eye trauma up the wazoo.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
It’s got policy frameworks, action plans, performance dashboards, graphs and tables up the wazoo, all presented in a PowerPoint-style format that was out of date in 1996.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021
How have buyers’ tastes changed coming out of the pandemic? JR: The hunger for [uplifting] stuff will go up to the wazoo by the beginning of next year.
—Manori Ravindran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
How can the most miraculous material in the history of the world, funded up the wazoo, all but dematerialize?
—WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
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Beth Teitell, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
The third chapter in the saga of Alex the lion (Ben Stiller) and his Central Park Zoo pals… has timing up the wazoo.
—Gwen Ihnat, EW.com, 28 Apr. 2023
And keep in mind that there's no reason to make your equipment management processes a nightmare by tracking everything out the wazoo.
—Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2020
Style out the wazoo here.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 1 Dec. 2021
Eye trauma up the wazoo.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
It’s got policy frameworks, action plans, performance dashboards, graphs and tables up the wazoo, all presented in a PowerPoint-style format that was out of date in 1996.
—Mark Lamster, Dallas News, 29 Jan. 2021
How have buyers’ tastes changed coming out of the pandemic? JR: The hunger for [uplifting] stuff will go up to the wazoo by the beginning of next year.
—Manori Ravindran, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
How can the most miraculous material in the history of the world, funded up the wazoo, all but dematerialize?
—WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
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First Known Use
1961, in the meaning defined above
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“Wazoo.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wazoo. Accessed 9 Dec. 2023.
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