ringer

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noun

Plural noun:

ringers

1.
Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
2.
(mining) A crowbar.
3.
(ornithology) A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
4.
(Australia)A stockman, a cowboy.
1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout′s Australia, Walkabout magazine, page 107, The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
5.
(games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
6.
(uncountable)(uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
7.
(UK, dialectal)(UK, dialect) A top performer.
8.
(Australia)The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
9.
(slang)Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
10.
(sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
Near-synonym: hustler
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.
Đồng nghĩa: hustler
11.
(horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
12.
(UK, slang)A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.

hustlerdead ringer

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From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring + -er.