Usually means: Small jails on naval ships.
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  1. brigs: Merriam-Webster
  2. brigs: Collins English Dictionary
  3. brigs: Vocabulary.com
  4. Brig's, Brigs, brig's, brigs: Wordnik
  5. brigs: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. brigs: Wiktionary
  7. brigs: Dictionary.com
  8. Brigs: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Brigs: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. brigs: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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  1. Brigs: Encyclopedia

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  1. BRIGS: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Brig)

noun:  (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
noun:  (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
verb:  (US, military slang, dated) To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
verb:  (US, military slang, dated) To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
noun:  (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
noun:  Brigadier.
noun:  A district in Valais canton, Switzerland.
noun:  A town in Brig-Glis municipality, Valais canton, Switzerland.
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