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togs

togs is the plural of tog.

togs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tog.

Noun

togs pl (plural only)

  1. (UK, plural, plural-only, slang) Clothes.
    • 'Look at his togs, Fagin!' said Charley, putting the light so close to his new jacket as nearly to set him on fire. 'Look at his togs! Superfine cloth, and the heavy swell cut! Oh, my eye, what a game! And his books, too! Nothing but a gentleman, Fagin!'1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 16, in Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC
    • And the costumes looked like workout togs.2016, San Francisco Examiner
  2. (plural, plural-only) Clothes for a specific occasion or use.
    • gardening togs, swimming togs
  3. (Ireland, New Zealand, plural, plural-only) Swimsuits, of either the women's or men's tight-fitting type (in some regions referred to as "speedos").

Meaning of tog

Noun (1)

tog (plural togs)

  1. (archaic, slang) A cloak.
  2. (archaic, slang) A coat.
    • I have a rorty gal, also a knowing pal, / And merrily together we jog on, / I doesn't care a flatch, as long as I've a tach, / Some pannum for my chest, and a tog on.c. 1864, Alfred Peck Stevens, “The Chickaleary Cove”, in Farmer, John Stephen, editor, Musa Pedestris, published 1896, page 161
  3. (New Zealand, slang) swimwear.
  4. A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre

Noun (2)

tog (plural togs)

  1. A tautog, a large wrasse native to the eastern coast of North America.
    • Though most jetty anglers fish the tip when looking for blackfish, tog can often be found along the entire structure.2021, Nick Honachefsky, “Catching Tautog from Shore”, in On The Water

Noun (3)

tog (plural togs)

  1. (informal) A photographer, especially a professional one.
    • Funny you should ask, I had a "scene" with a photographer, at yesterdays' Wedding, over the Groom's lapel Mic, the Groom was ok with it, but the tog, said it would spoil his photos, the Groom had a light jacket on, so it was visible, but, what else can you do?2006 July 9, “Lapel mic question”, in DV Info Net, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024

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Questions about togs

What does togs mean?
Togs means clothes.
What is togs the plural of?
Togs is the plural of tog.
What part of speech is togs?
Togs is a noun.

Words near togs in the dictionary

  1. togrind
  2. togrinding
  3. togrog
  4. togrogs
  5. togruk
  6. togs
  7. togue
  8. togues
  9. toguna
  10. togunas
  11. togwa

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Adapted from Wiktionary: togs (page history and authors); tog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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