ringer

IPA: rˈɪŋɝ

Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
(mining) A crowbar.
(games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
(uncountable, games) 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.
(UK, dialect) A top performer.
(Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
(Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
(slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
(sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
(horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
(UK, slang) A fraudulently cloned 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).
(UK, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
A surname.
(fandom slang) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.

Examples of "ringer" in Sentences

Good to have when your phone's ringer is switched off.
« Rep. Rivera had tough time against 'ringer' - even after she quit
My phone’s ringer is turned off, and my cell phone sits in my purse.
That's what the term ringer implies, among other things such as not belonging.
My ringer on both phones types here are off at night, even the fax ringer is off!
FL: Broward County - Rep. Rivera had tough time against 'ringer' - even after she quit LINK
A ringer from the time he was a foal – and he's only improved since I first handled him, four year ago.
We can get in ringer guys from Syria, but the Iraqis are all caught up in 'Oh, I want to survive to see a free Iraq.'
There’s a slate table to my left that holds my drink, the phone (whose ringer is off,) an Italian pottery catch all for pens, and a basket below for “stuff.”