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verb - intransitive

• to minimize or eliminate connections with one's current location of residence.

                                                                                                                                                
  
  Citation from "The virtual curmudgeon", The Economist, Sep 2 2010 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Jul 21 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 05 2010.

• to decamp.

  Last edited on Jul 21 2012. Submitted by Simon Barrett from London, Greater London, UK on Mar 06 2012.

adjective

• in an excessive amount, usually too much. Also up the butt.

  I've got e-mail up the ass!

  • See more words with the same meaning: many, much, lots.

  Last edited on Jan 13 1998. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Jan 13 1998.

adjective

• in trouble. A New Zealand expression. From the Puhoi river, north of Auckland. Originally the expression was "Up the Puhoi without a paddle". Similar to being "up shit creek without a paddle."
  
  http://erwin.bernhardt.net.nz/oceania/newzealandfacts.html

  Last edited on Dec 15 2013. Submitted by Dick Wright-Upham from Wellington, New Zealand on Dec 02 2010.

• An awful lot of something, probably too much of it.

  He's got email up the butt!

  • See more words with the same meaning: many, much, lots.

  Last edited on Oct 22 1997. Submitted by Emily M. from UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA on Oct 22 1997.

• misspelling and mispronunciation of up the yin-yang.

  I have orders up the ying-yang to pack and ship today.

  Last edited on Apr 14 2014. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 26 2010.

expression

• A great, perhaps excessive number

  See "Up the ass/butt/duff/wazoo.

  Last edited on Apr 14 2014. Submitted by Geoff Johnson from Santa Rosa, CA, USA on Apr 14 2014.

• with a large amount or number present.

                                                              
  
  Citation from "Briar Rose", Dollhouse (TV, 2009), Season 1 Episode 11 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

                                                            
  
  Citation from Seinfeld (TV) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  • See more words with the same meaning: many, much, lots.

  Last edited on Nov 26 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 18 2010.