ringer

Meanings

Plural: ringers

Noun

• a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
• a person who is almost identical to another
• a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
• (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
• 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.

Synonyms

bell ringer, clone, dead ringer, toller

Related Words

ding, ding, ding, we have a winner, ringer T-shirt