sax

noun

ˈsaks 

plural saxes

informal

: saxophone

plays sax in a local jazz ensemble

—often used before another noun

a sax player

The transmission, as one editor put it, "is as smooth as a Paul Desmond sax solo."

—John Phillips

Examples of sax in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But there is good reason to believe this young sax dynamo will hold his own among these veteran players at Dizzy’s, a venue where Childs has led his one bands on several occasions. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026

Added to the mix is Ian Stewart, the Stones’ longtime road manager, playing piano in boogie-woogie style, plus a wailing sax solo by Bobby Keys. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 July 2026

Springsteen’s voice starts weary, nearly monotone, then slowly lifted by a wall of sound (guitars, organ, sax, drums, glockenspiel, bass, keyboards), culminating in the finest woo-oah‘s known to rock. — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

The synth and sax both immediately evoke the 1970s work of Terry Riley, particularly his collaboration with John Cale, Church of Anthrax. — Reed Jackson, SPIN, 3 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sax

• axe
• backs
• blacks
• cracks
• fax
• flax
• hacks
• jacks
• knacks
• lacks
• lakhs
• lax

Kids Definition

sax

noun

ˈsaks 

informal

: saxophone