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ringer

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Noun

  1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
  2. A crowbar.
  3. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
  4. A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
  5. A ringer T-shirt.
  6. A top performer.
  7. The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
  8. A stockman, a cowboy.
  9. Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
  10. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
  11. A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
  12. A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
  13. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
  14. An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
  15. A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.

Proper noun

  1. A surname.

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