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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Vander Ark, wearing orange jail togs, declined to speak when given the chance and instead shook her head to indicate “no.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024
There’s a charming moment in which, showing up in his spanking-new astronaut togs to impress his wife, he ends up washing dishes in her restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023
Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2022
When the 13-year-old mogul decides to help the junior-high nerds, the first thing she does is outfit them from her closets full of fancy togs.
From Washington Post • Apr. 10, 2019
A palpable tension filled the vast interior of the shell house as the oarsmen changed into their rowing togs.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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