ˈtɒɡ.əl ˈtɑ.ɡəl ˈtɒɡ.əl ˈtɑ.ɡəl release by a toggle switch toggle a bomb from an airplane fasten with, or as if with, a toggle provide with a toggle or toggles a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable) a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time