A group of people organized for a common purpose. / (military) Military unit composed of several regiments (or battalions) and including soldiers from different arms of service.

To form or unite into a brigade; to group together. / (Internet slang) To harass an individual or community online in a coordinated manner.

plural of brigade

simple past tense and past participle of brigade

A member of a brigade

plural of brigader

present participle of brigade

(firefighting, US) A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of putting out fires, usually in addition to their normal job.

The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.

A generic group of men interested in sleaze or pornography; dirty old men.