ringer

Plural: ringers

Noun

• One that rings, or a person/thing resembling another.
• 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.

Examples

• In this next clip from the security camera, we see that the rube flashing his wad of cash thinks he'll win, but he doesn't realize that the guy in the gray shirt is a ringer.
• That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!
• That Words With Friends player is a real "RINGER," always scoring incredibly high.

Synonyms

bell ringer, clone, dead ringer, toller

Related Words

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