plural saxes
Definition of sax
informal
: saxophone
plays sax in a local jazz ensemble
— often used before another noun a sax playerThe transmission, as one editor put it, "is as smooth as a Paul Desmond sax solo."— John Phillips
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The first known use of sax was circa 1923
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