What does "like a [expletive] wazoo" mean? [closed]
I was video-documenting on my cellphone like a goddamn wazoo.
What does wazoo mean in that sentence? I googled it, and the results seemed to indicate wazoo means ass. Is that what it means in the sentence?
The use in the sentence you provided,
I was video-documenting on my cellphone like a goddamn wazoo.
reflects this meaning:
- up (also out) the wazoo: in great quantities, in abundance, to excess.
["wazoo, n.". OED Online. December 2015. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/251512?redirectedFrom=wazoo (accessed January 09, 2016). Bold emphasis mine.]
The extreme variability of slang ('wazoo') allows it to be used productively with idiomatic phrasing that resembles what has historically been the norm, as long at the rephrasing is felt by the speaker to be easily interpreted; in this case, the idiomatic use of "[up (also out)] the wazoo" has been replaced by the bare use of the slang term.
So, the sense you encountered means
I was video-documenting on my cellphone a lot [or in excess].
Robert Chapman & Barbara Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang, third edition (1995) has this entry for wazoo:
wazoo n 1970s The buttocks; anus; =ASS {perhaps a variant of kazoo [which is defined similarly, with this further etymological note "origin unknown; perhaps fr[om] Louisiana French zoozoo, "buttocks, ass"; perhaps kazoo, known in its standard sense fr[om] the 1880s, suggested the anus in being tubular and emitting sounds"]}
As JEL's answer indicates, "up the wazoo" (meaning "to the breaking point" or "to the limit of [one's] patience or tolerance") is the most common idiomatic setting for the word wazoo in informal U.S. English.
"Like a wazoo" is not a common expression in North America, as far as I know—it doesn't produce any matches in a Google Books search, and very few in an Internet Google search where wazoo functions as a noun—but the sense in the example sentence seems to be something like "as if possessed" or "like a crazy person."