ringer
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- A crowbar.
- In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- A ringer T-shirt.
- A top performer.
- The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- A stockman, a cowboy.
- Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
- A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
- 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).
- An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
- 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
- A surname.
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