Ship's jail
The crossword clue "Ship's jail" is answered by BRIG, a 4-letter entry. Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
BRIG
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the BRIG answer page.
Used 20 times across 16 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1943. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for BRIG
Every other clue in this collection answered by BRIG, most used first.
- Naval lockup - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Ship's lockup - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Sea cell - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Guardhouse - used 9 times, most recently in 2000
- Two-masted vessel - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
- Sailor's jail - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Ship's slammer - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Two-masted ship. - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Two-master - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Naval hoosegow - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Naval jail - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- Shipboard jail - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Ship's front - PROW, used 59 times
- Ship's staff - CREW, used 59 times
- Ship's pole - MAST, used 50 times
- Ship's backbone - KEEL, used 44 times
- Get-out-of-jail money - BAIL, used 32 times
- Ship's frame - HULL, used 27 times
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