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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Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2022
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
A Roomba, for example, could note the presence of toys on the floor — useful information for a company selling children’s togs, school services or, of course, toys.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2017
It is true that In his superhero togs — some sort of polyester blend, not the muscular Kevlar armor favored by his grimacing, grumbling successors — West can seem faintly ridiculous.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2017
Finally Linda angrily turned off the radio and just sat at the table with her head resting in the fluff of clean kiddie togs, overcome by an almost pristine sadness, a feeling of hopelessness.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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