ringer
IPA: rˈɪŋɝ
noun
- 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.
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