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Word: ringer (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other. (Now usually in the phrase dead ringer)
  • A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
  • A person with orange or red hair, often used as an insult.
  • Australian A stockman; a drover
  • In the game of horseshoes, when the horseshoe lands around the pole.
  • Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
  • dialect A top performer

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