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
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
Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2022
A few of the applicants came dressed in three-piece suits or smart business casual, and some wore working togs with their fledgling companies’ logos on them, while others made their pitches in T-shirts and jeans.
From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021
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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