brig
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8.6
- noun
- /brɪg/
- Jargon
:
prisión naval
- After being caught for disobeying orders, the sailor was sent to the brig for three weeks.
- a naval brig
- a military brig
- Navy brig
And there were few if any prisoners in the Brig at Quantico.
- And there were few if any prisoners in the Brig at Quantico.
- Everyone's staring at me and they do the full checkup and then took me to the Brig.
Examples
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Any further offenders will be confined to the brig... for the remainder of the voyage.
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They got him down in the brig.
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-Take them to the brig.
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Take him to the brig.
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Put them all in the brig.
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Yeah, then 2 years in the brig.
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A year is a very long time to spend in the ship's brig waiting for trial. " Sir!
Fiction book (2002) -
Most officers would have thrown you in the brig.
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Plead guilty and I'll recommend 30 days in the brig with loss of rank and pay.
Fiction book (1992) -
If you went AWOL, they'd probably put you in the brig for a while.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
549
5.6
A small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held
43
1.5
A small room in a prison where guards keep prisoners
29
2.7
A small locked room in jail for holding a person
26
5.3
A camp where guards keep people against their will, often during war
22
8.1
A jail cell for prisoners who are violent
12
4.9
A part of a prison that has several cells for prisoners
10
4.2
A building like a prison where people are kept as punishment and given training
2
4.9
A place where people who broke the law are kept as punishment or while they wait for trial
1
6.0
A building that holds people as punishment for crimes to protect the public
Compounds
- Archaic
A two-masted sailing ship with square sails on the front mast and long sails along the main mast
Surface Forms
Etymology
Brig for a ship's jail comes from the same ship name brigantine, because sailors sometimes held prisoners on these ships, so brig came to mean a 'jail' on a ship.