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ax; axe
noun- a musical instrument, especially an electric guitar US, 1955
Originally used in jazz circles for any instrument, particularly a saxophone or trumpet, instruments on which “chops” (musical figures) are played; surely “axe” was coined as a pun. The word itself suggests a chopper, a tool that you can carry over your shoulder – to many jazz and, subsequently, rock musicians, their instrument is exactly that. - Now these cats were blowing their horns, their axes, whatever they had. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 229, 1965
- OK man, we’ll take these axes. — The Blues Brothers, 1980
- I’d heard an instrument called an “axe” before – that was an old time hipster’s term[.] — Sean Hutchinson, Crying Out Loud, p. 176, 1988
- [H]e [Jimi Hendrix] just got right up in my face with that axe, and I didn’t want to pick up a guitar for the next year. — Mike Bloomfield (1943–1981), quoted in Jabberrock, p. 100, 1997
- any sharp-edged weapon US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 20, 1950
- a knife used or intended for use as a weapon US
- — David Claerbaut, Black Jargon in White America, p. 57, 1972
- dismissal from employment US, 1883
Usually heard in the phrases “get the axe” or “give the axe”. - Gordon Explains Why He Got Axe — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, headline, p. 45, 28 June 1961
- You would have the inside story of my geting the ax. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 88, 1963
- Mr. Shapian, please help me before I get the ax. I’m a married man with kids. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 25, 1964
- They could only give him the axe. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 39, 1969
- “Suspension?” Huck said. “The axe.” “Jesus!” — Peter Corris, Pokerface, p. 28, 1985
- in a gambling operation, the house’s cut of the bets US
- — John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, p. 459, 1974
- the lip of a wave US
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 4, 1991
▶ get the axe
in surfing, to be knocked off your board by a wave US- I looked around. Only two other guys had made it. The others had got the axe. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 16, 1957
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 123, 1963
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