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n. Games A horseshoe or quoit thrown so that it encircles the peg.

n. One that rings, especially one that sounds a bell or chime.

n. Slang A contestant entered dishonestly into a competition.

n. Slang One who bears a striking resemblance to another: a ringer for his father.

n. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

n. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.

n. A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

n. A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.

n. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

n. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; now usually in the phrase dead ringer.

n. A top performer.

n. The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

n. A stockman, a cowboy.

n. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

n. A crowbar.

n. A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

n. In quoits, a throw by which the quoit is cast so as to encircle the pin.

n. One who rings; specifically, a bell-ringer.

n. Any apparatus for ringing chimes, or a bell of any kind.

n. In mining, a crowbar.

n. In athletics, one who competes in some way under deception, concealing his identity, ability, or standing.

n. In racing, a horse entered in a race with intent to deceive.

n. In sheep-shearing, one who rings or tops the score. See ring.

n. In general, one who excels others, as if able to run rings around his competitors and still keep ahead. See ring.

n. A supplementary enthusiastic cheer.

n. In telephony, an electric call-ben.

n. (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg

n. a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)

n. a person who is almost identical to another

n. a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses

"That's what the term ringer implies, among other things such as not belonging."

throw    signaler    signaller    look-alike    image    double    pretender    pseud    pseudo-    role player   

polarized ringer   

dead ringer   

crowbar   

Inger    Singer    Stinger    binger    clinger    dinger    left-winger    linger    minger    right-winger   

magneto    condenser    evaporator    forefinger    cut-off