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tog

  [tog] ,noun, verb, togged, tog⋅ging.
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–noun
1. a coat.
2. Usually, togs. clothes.
–verb (used with object)
3. to dress (often fol. by out or up).
Origin:
1775–85; appar. short for earlier cant togeman(s), togman cloak, coat, equiv. to toge (late ME < L toga toga ) + -man(s) obs. cant suffix < ?
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tog   (tŏg, tôg)   
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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Word Origin & History

tog 
1708, "any outer garment," shortened from togman "cloak, loose coat" (1567), thieves' cant word, formed from Fr. togue "cloak," from L. toga (see toga). M.E. toge "toga" (14c.) was also a cant word for "coat." Plural form togs is first recorded 1779. Toggery "clothes collectively" is recorded from 1812.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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