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ringer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ringer has 4 senses
- ringer(n = noun.person) bell ringer, toller - a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation); Array is a kind of signaler, signaller
- ringer(n = noun.person) clone, dead ringer - a person who is almost identical to another; Array is a kind of double, image, look-alike
- ringer(n = noun.person) Array - a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses; Array is a kind of fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer
- ringer(n = noun.act) Array - (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg; Array is a kind of throw
Derived form verb ring3
CIDE DICTIONARY
ringer, n.
- One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells. [1913 Webster]
- A crowbar. Simmonds. [1913 Webster]
ringer, n.
A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ringer, n. sl.
1 a esp. US an athlete or horse entered in a competition by fraudulent means, esp. as a substitute. b a person's double, esp. an imposter.
2 Austral. a the fastest shearer in a shed. b a stockman or station hand.
3 a person who rings, esp. a bell-ringer.
1 a esp. US an athlete or horse entered in a competition by fraudulent means, esp. as a substitute. b a person's double, esp. an imposter.
2 Austral. a the fastest shearer in a shed. b a stockman or station hand.
3 a person who rings, esp. a bell-ringer.
Idiom
be a ringer (or dead ringer) for resemble (a person) exactly.
Etymology
RING(2) + -ER(1)
THESAURUS
ringer
agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, backup, blagueur, bluff, bluffer, change, changeling, charlatan, comparison, copy, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, faker, fill-in, fourflusher, fraud, ghost, ghostwriter, humbug, imitation, impersonator, impostor, locum tenens, makeshift, malingerer, metaphor, metonymy, mountebank, next best thing, personnel, phony, picture, pinch hitter, portrait, poser, poseur, pretender, proxy, quack, quacksalver, quackster, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, saltimbanco, second string, secondary, sham, shammer, sign, simulacrum, spares, spit, spitting image, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regentROGET THESAURUS
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Deceiver
N deceiver &c (deceive), dissembler, hypocrite, sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus, serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing, jilt, shuffler, stool pigeon, liar &c (lie), story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin, bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder, imposter, pretender, soi-disant, humbug, adventurer, Cagliostro, Fernam Mendez Pinto, ass in lion's skin, actor, quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco, saltimbanque, empiric, quacksalver, medicaster, Rosicrucian, gypsy, man of straw, conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey, crimp, decoy, decoy duck, rogue, knave, cheat, swindler, jobber, saint abroad and a devil at home.
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