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tog

[tog] / tɒg /


Frequently Asked Questions

What is another word for tog?
Tog is an informal word for a coat. The plural form togs is used to refer to clothes in general. Similarly informal words for clothing include threads and duds. Tog can also be used as a verb: tog up and tog out mean to dress (oneself), especially to dress up.
Where does tog come from?
Tog comes from a shortening of togeman(s), a slang word for “cloak” or “coat.” The first part of the word ultimately comes from the Latin word toga, but the origin of the ending is uncertain.
How do you use tog in a sentence?
Tog is informal. It’s most commonly used in the plural togs, an informal word for clothes. Here are some examples of tog in a sentence:
  • Grab your tog, we’re going out! 
  • Fancy togs! You must have somewhere to go.  
  • I got all togged up for the party.

Example Sentences

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If you need a new mattress, spend time choosing one that is appropriate, and make sure your duvet is the right tog for the season.

From The Guardian Nov. 5, 2018

During a visit to Iceland, she sees native sheep whose coats “grow two distinct kinds of fiber” called tog and thel.

From Washington Post Feb. 8, 2016

China can not continue tog row at 10 percent forever and we will need to make accommodations for that fact.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2016

I am beginning to feel I’d like to tog once more.

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford

I am happy das you hafe zave den tog.

From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher

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

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 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

Suitably togged up, he set off on a solo motoring holiday in France.

From The Guardian Mar. 28, 2020

It is as if my entire childhood was lived out in the cold months, a decade spent togged up in duffel coats and mittens, wellingtons and woolly hats.

From The Guardian Oct. 8, 2017

Your mother has asked us to leave you up at the weekend so she can get you togged out and all.”

From The New Yorker Feb. 8, 2010

“I think it’s past time we got you togged out, girl.”

From The New Yorker Feb. 8, 2010

They’re all togged out in blue and white jerseys and white shorts and proper football boots.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

In the home dressing room their most capped prop, Andrea Lo Cicero, recalled to the starting team, will be togging out for the last time.

From The Guardian Mar. 15, 2013

Francisco Franco lightened the gloom of a generally hostile world by togging himself in hunting clothes and giving a splendid imitation of an old-fashioned candidate for some office or other.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the other Gridley youngsters stopped half way in their togging to listen for the reply.

From The High School Captain of the Team Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

This was what "the message of Emerson" meant to Westley, and the novelty of it had seemed to justify what he called "togging up," after a hard day's work at the slaughter-house.

From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson

He intended to make them beg, from Wadleigh down, before he would go on to the finish of his togging.

From The High School Left End Dick & Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock




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