Is it "out" the wazoo or "up" the wazoo?

[sharesunited]

I have heard it both ways. Does the context make a difference?

[EOTE]

1. Up the wazoo sounds right to me.

Sounds more painful anyway.

[tridim]

2. According to dictionary.com

wa·zoo /wɑˈzu/ –noun, plural -zoos. Slang.
1. the anus.
2. the buttocks.
—Idiom3. up the wazoo, to an extreme degree or in great abundance: She's got problems up the wazoo.

[Wizard777]

8. I disagree Abundance or excess is out the wazoo. Bill Gates has money out the wazoo.

[Wizard777]

3. It's both. Excess is out the wazoo. Extremity is up the wazoo.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. I think it can be both.

One can load things into the wazoo, but when it is full, the wazoo can be so overloaded that things are falling out of it.

[tularetom]

5. You have even less to do today than I do, don't you?

I only had time to respond to this, but you actually had the time to think of it.

[sharesunited]

10. Sometimes it must all come to a halt until the blockage is cleared.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. It depends

There is "He's talking out his wazoo."

Then, there is "Stick it up your wazoo."

Context always makes a difference.

I embrace the purity of language, and salute you for such fine attention to a vital detail.

[slackmaster]

7. Up the wazoo, out the kazoo

:hi:

[rateyes]

9. Wazoo know?

I don't know.

[Arugula Latte]

11. George Carlin would have had an opinion on that one.

:rofl:

[Vilis Veritas]

12. I could not resist...

A poster online at DU
Asked about the phrase Wazoo
When prompted we replied
it is out or inside
and of that it is certainly true

Could context make some misconstrue
The meaning of the term wazoo
while contextually the same
in the usual refrain
One is firmly embedded in poo

saddlesore

[lame54]

13. depends on what you ate

[Sheets of Easter]

14. It's either/or. Both if you're biwazoual.

[old mark]

15. I believe it depends on

how you define the wazoo. I have seen and used both applications.
This may be one of the most creatively applied phrases in American English.

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