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tog

 (tŏg, tôg) Informal
n.
1. togs Clothes: gardening togs.
2. A coat or cloak.
tr.v. togged, tog·ging, togs
To dress or clothe: togged herself in ski pants.

[Short for obsolete togeman, from obsolete French togue, cloak, from Latin toga, garment; see toga.]
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togs

(tɒɡz)
pl n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) clothes
2. (Clothing & Fashion) Austral and NZ and Irish a swimming costume
[from tog1]
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Toggery, Togs

 clothes collectively, 1812.
Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.togs - informal terms for clothingtogs - informal terms for clothing    
article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
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Translations

togs

[ˈtɒgz] npl (= clothes) → fringues fpl
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

togs

pl (inf)Sachen pl, → Klamotten pl (inf), → Zeug nt
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

togs

[tɒgz] npl (fam) (clothes) → vestiti mpl
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
"'Bill Briscoe, did you really and truly bury the dead body that you found in these togs?'
'Look at his togs, Fagin!' said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire.
"All right, then, I'll do it; but I could carry it just as handy in my own togs."
"Ships!" exclaimed an elderly seaman in clean shore togs. "Ships" - and his keen glance, turning away from my face, ran along the vista of magnificent figure-heads that in the late seventies used to overhang in a serried rank the muddy pavement by the side of the New South Dock - "ships are all right; it's the men in 'em.
Then he would enjoy their consternation at sight of a naked white boy trapped in the war togs of a black warrior and roaming the jungle with only a great ape as his companion.
[Chuckling] He'll have to pay for all those togs you have been wearing today; and that, with the hire of the jewellery, will make a big hole in two hundred pounds.
One was a young man in a worn and ragged uniform of the British Royal Air Forces, the other, a young woman in the even more disreputable remnants of what once had been trim riding togs.
These harbour togs gave to his thick figure an air of stiff and uncouth smartness.
We were given a suit of sailor togs each, a barrel of water, two casks, one of junk and one of biscuits, and a compass.
"I had the luck to get clear away through knowing every brick of those back-garden walls, and the double luck to have these togs with the rest over at Chelsea.
“I telt yon vat, gal!” said the old German, good-humoredly ; “if I vas as I vas ven I servit mit his grand-fader on ter lakes, ter lazy tog shouldn’t vin ter prize as for nottin’.”