Brig (disambiguation)
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Brig may be:
In shipping and the military;
- Brig, a type of ship
- An obsolete abbreviation for "Brigantine", a type of ship
- Brig (prison), a jail or military prison on a United States Navy or Coast Guard vessel. The term is also used for any jail on a Navy or Coast Guard base, as well as in many spaceships in science fiction literature.
a location;
- Brig, Switzerland : a town in the canton of Valais, Switzerland.
- Brigg, North Lincolnshire, a location in England.
- Scots language for "bridge", and thus occurring in some Scottish placenames:
