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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Notable this week was his full-page panegyric of " Jack Tar Togs " in the Saturday Evening Post.
From Time Magazine Archive
But to Clothes Maker Russ Togs, Christie Brinkley, 31, is the name of a line of clothes that had a loss of more than $1 million in the six months ending in August.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says she: "The Russ Togs management was not equipped to put ideas into action."
From Time Magazine Archive
Russ Togs signed Brinkley to a three-year contract in the hope that she could help them get into the upscale sportswear market, but the effort largely failed.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a new straw hat with a coloured band, bought the day before at a shop advertising "Snappy Togs for Dressy Men."
From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon
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