brig
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They like Wash more than Titch, whom they throw in the brig, but they are nice, relatively speaking.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025
Depending on the circumstances, most passengers put in the brig will stay there until they can be handed over to law enforcement officials.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2024
Records suggest that the transatlantic voyage aboard the dilapidated brig was his final journey at sea, with one account saying he fell ill and resigned of his own accord, returning home as a paralytic.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022
Together, we hacked a terminal, passed the brig override code across a room in a short game of telephone, and unlocked the door so that they could escape.
From The Verge • Feb. 25, 2022
He never tucked in shirttails, not even in the Army, he said, where he spent a month in the brig for it.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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