togs
Britishplural noun
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clothes
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a swimming costume
Etymology
Origin of togs
from tog 1
Explanation
Your togs are your clothes. If you're running late in the morning, you might have to throw on your togs and skip breakfast. When you leave the house and find it's much colder than you realized, you may want to run inside and put on warmer togs. And if you have soccer practice after school, don't forget to bring your gym togs with you. These days we only use the informal togs in this plural form, but tog once meant "outer garment"; it was shorthand for togman, "loose cloak," in thieves' dialect.
Example Sentences
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London and Kelly have been briefed in advance — there are dossiers — so that when the subject arrives at the “Wardrobe Warehouse,” a room filled with promising togs and accessories awaits them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025
Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2022
He once put on wrestling togs and skull-and-crossbones tattoos for a WrestleMania skit.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2020
When she saw her parents, she ran back inside and changed back into her gray togs, but it was no good: She was sent to a convent school.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2018
We were led out of the elevator through a rococo hall into an anteroom and told to get into our fighting togs.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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