Meaning of Ringer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.
   slang
2. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
3. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
4. A top performer.
   UK, dialectal
5. Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
   slang
6. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
7. An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
   UK, in-compounds, informal
8. A surname.
9. A crowbar.
10. A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
    uncountable
11. The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
    Australia
12. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
13. A ringer T-shirt.
14. A stockman, a cowboy.
    Australia
15. A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
16. A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
    UK, slang

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Examples

“Pull⟳, if ye never pull⟳′d before; Good ringers, pull⟳ your best," quoth he.”

“[…] shabby baseball caps, faded and worn-out T-shirts, ringers and polos with artificially aged hems […]”

“The shirts were light⟳ blue heather ringers with royal blue trim on the necks and sleeves.”

“Click goes his shears; click, click, click. Wide are the blows, and his hand is moving quick, The ringer looks round, for he lost it by a blow⟳, And he curses that old shearer with the bare belled ewe.”

“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.”

“This vast holding is run⟳ by six ringers and six boys. A ringer is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become⟳ a ringer.”

“Most people associated with the Australian beef industry believe⟳ the ringer′s skill of throwing cattle by the tail to be a practice that is purely Australian. There is ample evidence however, that it was practised in South and Central America long before it was developed here.”

“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.”

“I had heard early on in my career about 'ringers': cars that were stolen and cloned, but it was 1993 before I was to experience⟳ this first-hand.”

“That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!”

“I mean⟳, he knows we never handed off the briefcase, but he never asked for it back. The million bucks was never in the briefcase! The asshole was hoping that they would kill⟳ her! You threw out a ringer for a ringer!”

“A group of naval one- and two-ringers were chatting by the office door with a few ratings, complete⟳ with kit-bags and oilskins.”

“The senior officer of the escort was an RN two and a half ringer who had a reputation of being one of the best.”

“Readers flocked online to articulate their angst, discovering 400 websites where "Ringers" congregated to converse in Quenya – one of Tolkien's fictional languages – and discuss⟳ such burning issues as whether elves have⟳ pointy ears.”

“One Ringer travels all over and takes pictures of her "Lord of the Rings" figurines.”

“Trekkers, Whovians and Ringers were out in force⟳ over the weekend as sci-fi and fantasy fans descended on Cardiff for the city's Film and Comic Convention.”

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