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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The parade of nations is also a fashion show; for whatever reason, the cold weather gear is generally better looking than the togs of summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2022
A new friend of Sam’s is MH, a fierce, super-fit agitator bent on “potential optimization” and “perverse celebration” protesting in expensive togs while dwelling in tony real estate, a designer pose.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2021
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
“Here,” she said, handing me the togs, “put these on.”
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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