Synonyms of brigs

brigs

noun

plural of brig

as in jails

a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody

the captain ordered that the prisoner be thrown into the brig immediately

Synonyms & Similar Words

• jails
• penitentiaries
• prisons
• stockades
• pens
• big houses
• coops
• lockups
• jugs
• guardrooms
• coolers
• bastilles
• pokeys
• cages
• tanks
• jailhouses
• quods
• hocks
• cans
• clinks
• bridewells
• stirs
• tolbooths
• nicks
• slammers
• dungeons
• calabooses
• hoosegows
• joints
• slams
• hulks
• cells
• holds
• bull pens
• wards
• guardhouses
• holes
• prison camps
• labor camps
• reformatories
• concentration camps
• work camps
• keeps
• blocks
• gulags
• glasshouses
• reform schools
• stalags
• training schools
• oubliettes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• outsides