Usually means: Military ship's jail for confinement.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. brig: Merriam-Webster
  2. Brig, brig, brig: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brig: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Brig, brig: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brig: Vocabulary.com
  6. Brig, brig: Wordnik
  7. brig: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brig: Wiktionary
  9. brig: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brig: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brig: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brig, brig: Dictionary.com
  13. brig: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Brig (disambiguation), Brig (district), Brig (naval compartment), Brig (prison), Brig (ship), Brig, The Brig (Lost), The Brig (play): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Brig: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. brig: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. brig: Rhymezone
  18. Brig: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. brig: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. brig: FreeDictionary.org
  21. brig: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Brig, brig: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. brig: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brig: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brig: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BRIG: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. brig, brig: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Brig, the brig: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Brig: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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