"Axe" for 'guitar'?

Jimmie C Ellis msjce1 at JUNO.COM
Fri Apr 21 06:15:36 UTC 2000


Chambers 21st Century Dictionary has the slang term listed as a) a guitar
b) formerly a saxophone.
This volume was published in 1996 but gives no first use date.

Personally, growing up in southern California, I started going to coffee
houses (non-alcohol night clubs)  in the 1960s where many folk singers
referred to their acoustic guitars as their axe.



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