ringer

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Synonyms: linger, finger, ginger, ranger, zinger, ringed, rigger, dinger, ringe, bringer, binger

Antonyms: linger, finger, ginger, ranger, zinger, ringed, rigger, dinger, ringe, bringer, binger

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Noun

1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
2. A crowbar.
3. ↑ 1858, Peter Lund Simmonds, The Dictionary of Trade Products

Noun

1. A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
2. A stockman, a cowboy.
3. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
4. A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

Noun

1. A top performer.
2. The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

Noun

1. Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
2. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
   • 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.
3. A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
4. A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.

Noun

1. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike .
   • That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!

Noun

1. An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
2. A ringer T-shirt.

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