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How to pronounce “brig”
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Pronunciation guide for brig
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of brig with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 4 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
and then they were locked-- not in a brig,
- Definition summary
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
Example 1 of 4
How to pronounce brig
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
and then they were locked-- not in a brig,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “brig”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (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.
- (US, military slang, dated) To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.
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