Brig

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
Abbreviated from brigantine, from brigantino; jail sense from the use of such ships as prisons

Noun

 * 1)  A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A jail or guardhouse, especially in a military installation

Noun

 * 1) A Scottish variation of bridge

Etymology 3
abbreviation for brigadier

Thesaurus
POW camp, bastille, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, calaboose, can, cell, clink, concentration camp, condemned cell, cooler, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol, guardhouse, guardroom, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, sponging house, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollbooth, training school