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[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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Some supermarkets sell winter duvets for under £20 - look for 10.5 tog or higher.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

There have also been questions about Amazon parcel logistics, requests to borrow cereal bowls and what tog duvet other people's children were given.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

In silk, with a trademark Latin, the plutocrat's wife appears, and I can afford but satin to tog out my dimpled dears.

From Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason

London and Kelly have been briefed in advance — there are dossiers — so that when the subject arrives at the “Wardrobe Warehouse,” a room filled with promising togs and accessories awaits them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025

Although the full health risks of wearing togs alleged to be toxic are still unknown, the potential implications are wide-reaching.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

Dress in your best green togs and find inspiration in peas, avocados, spinach, and seaweed.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2022

A new friend of Sam’s is MH, a fierce, super-fit agitator bent on “potential optimization” and “perverse celebration” protesting in expensive togs while dwelling in tony real estate, a designer pose.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 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

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

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

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2010

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

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

As they were to play subs. they did not need to be as early at togging as the members of the team.

From Dave Darrin's Fourth Year at Annapolis by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Other casting off their armour wrastling and togging one with another: some headlong with their heeles vpwarde, falling and not come to the ground from off their horsses.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington

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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