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ˈTogger slang.
[Oxford undergraduates' perversion of torpid: see -er6.]
A boat rowing in the Oxford college races called ‘Torpids’; in pl. the Torpids.
1891P. S. Allen Let. Oct. (1939) 10, I hope to combine reading and rowing, for both I hugely desire to get into the Eight next summer and also they are rather hard up for men for the Togger. 1897Westm. Gaz. 18 Aug. 2/1 He once rowed in his second Togger. 1903Oxford Mag. 11 Feb. 213/1 Brasenose. The River.—Good luck to both Toggers. |