Mississippi sax

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Mississippi sax (plural Mississippi saxes)

  1. (slang) A simple harmonica.
    • 2002, Art Tipaldi, Children of the Blues, P.67:
      Chicago was home to the reinvention of the harmonica from tiny dime store toy to amplified and distorted Mississippi sax.