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Definition: Togs |
TogsNoun1. Informal terms for clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "togs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
Note: Togs \Togs\, plural noun. [See Toggery.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | TOGS. Clothes. The swell is rum-togged. The gentleman is handsomely dressed. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: TogsSynonyms: duds (n), threads (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals; canonicals; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery; day wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Togs |
| Specialty definitions using "togs": TOGS. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Teen Togs (1945) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | "During the official test of the baby submarine by Dr. William Beebe on behalf of the National Geographic Society. Frank Crilley, the holder of the world's deep-sea diving record in diving suit, being dressed in his togs preparatory to going down in the submarine, passing out through its underwater hatch, and then rising to the surface outside the submarine -- the climax of the test." Quoted from the original caption of this photograph, which was taken in late 1932, during tests on the Explorer in Pelham Bay, Long Island, New York. Frank William Crilley, the diver in this photograph, had been awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in rescuing another man during diving operations on USS F-4 (SS-23) on 17 April 1915. Credit: NAVY. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Togs" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Togs" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 88.89% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "togs": golf togs. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "togs": Ultra-togs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
frog togs | 50 |
toff togs | 19 |
bonnie togs | 18 |
bal togs | 16 |
baby togs | 16 |
togs | 15 |
frogg togs | 9 |
n tack togs | 7 |
tack togs | 4 |
cradle togs | 3 |
thera togs | 2 |
bal dance togs wear | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "togs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | veshje (apparel, array, article of clothing, ascription, attire, attribution, clothes, clothing, cloudiness, dress, dressing, fig, furnishings, garb, garment, garments, gear, guise, habiliments, habit, incrustation, outfit, overlay, papering, raggery, raiment, sheath, strip, suit, tog, toggery, vesture, wear), rroba (clothes, dress, duds, laundry, raiment, things, tog, toggery, vesture, wardrobe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملابس (apparel, attire, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garment, gear, gown, outfit, raiment, rig, rigging, robe, suit, toggery, wear), سترات, ثياب (bib, clothes, raiment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | дрехи (clothes, clothing, dress, duds, gear, get up, things, toggery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | arbejdstøj, arbejdsbeklædning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | beroepskleding. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | toges, vêtements, fringues (toggery), costume de travail. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Berufskleidung (protective clothing, spray clothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρούχα εργασίας. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ruha (clothes, costume, dress, duds, garb, garment, habiliments, habit, number, pressure garment, pressure suit, raiment, rig, toilet, weed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ogstay hainã (coat, cope, costume, garment, pea jacket, thing, toggery, toilet), boarfe (rummage, toggery), boarfã (rags, trash), ţoalã (apparel, carpet). (various references) одежда (aparel, apparel, clobber, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garment, garments, get up, maternity clothes, raggery, raiment, rig, rigging, the outward man, tog, toggery, turn out, undercoat, vestment, wear). (various references) odeća (apparel, clothes, clothing, dress, garb, habiliment, habiliments, outerwear, outfit, raiment, rig, vestments). (various references) vestidos (apparel, clothes, clothing, dresses, wardrobe), prendas de trabajo. (various references) kıyafet (apparel, attire, caparison, costume, dress, garb, get up, habiliments, habit, livery, turnout, vesture), elbiseler (duds). (various references) одяг (apparel, caparison, clobber, clothes, clothing, costume, dress, garb, garments, investment, outfit, rag, raiment, rig out, tailoring, things, vestment, wear). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "togs": photogs, tautogs. (additional references) | |
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"Togs" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ogs, taggs, teggs, tegs, tg, t'go, Tigus, tobs, togcs, toge, togg, toggs, togh, togi, Togos, tojs, toog, torgos, tors, Troggs, tsog, tugbs, tuges, tuggs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "togs" (pronounced tÄ"gz) |
| 3 | -Ä" g z | bogs, clogs, dogs, frogs, hogs, jogs. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: gos, got, sot, tog. | |
-2 letters: go, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: ghost, glost, goats, gouts, grots, gusto, stogy, togas, tongs. | |
+2 letters: argots, bigots, egoist, ergots, fagots, gators, gavots, gemots, ghosts, ghosty, gigots, gloats, glosts, glouts, godets, griots, groats, grouts, guyots, ingots, magots, mongst, oughts, outgas, sought, spigot, stingo, stodge, stodgy, stogey, stogie, stooge, strong, tangos, thongs, tigons, togues, tongas, toughs, trigos. | |
+3 letters: agonist, agoutis, amongst, bigshot, cogitos, congest, costing, diglots, dotages, dugouts, egoists, egotism, egotist, faggots, forgets, fugatos, galiots, galoots, garotes, gelatos, gemotes, gentoos, gestapo, ghettos, ghosted, ghostly, giglots, gitanos, gjetost, glottis, gnomist, gnostic, goatees, goatish, gobbets, goblets, godwits, goglets, goiters, goitres, goldest, gomutis, gooiest, gorgets, goriest, gosport, gothics, grottos, growths, gunshot, gustoes, hoggets, hognuts, hogties, hostage, hosting, hotdogs, latigos, legatos, loggats, loggets, logiest, longest, maggots, mugshot, nougats, noughts, ologist, onstage, orgeats, ousting, outages, outbegs, outgoes, outguns, outgush, outings, outsang, outsing, outsung, photogs, pigouts, postage, postbag, posting, potages, putlogs, ragouts, ragtops, rotguts, shotgun, sooting, sorting, spigots, stingos, stodged, stodges, stogeys, stogies, stoking, stoning, stooged, stooges, stopgap, stoping, storage, storing, stowage, stowing, tautogs, throngs, tiglons, toggles, tongers, tongues, tossing, tousing, towages, trigons, trogons, troughs, turgors, yogurts, zygotes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 6F 67 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- --- --. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101111 01100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T o g s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 006F 0067 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54817385 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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