Other than being prepositions what do up and out have in common? They are both used with the word wazoo, which is slang for butt and sometimes other orifices. The origin of the word isn't exact though OED thinks it might come from the French word oiseau meaning bird, or possibly from the word razoo, meaning raspberry, the kind you blow not the kind you eat. Another theory is wazoo came from kazoo or gazoo referring to the buzzing instrument which became slang for butt in the 1960s, the bottom line, whether it's up or out the wazoo it is an excess or abundance and not in a good way.
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