ringers

noun

Meaning

Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
A crowbar.
(games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
(games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
A ringer T-shirt.
A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
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 fraudulently cloned motor vehicle.
A top performer.
The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
A stockman, a cowboy.
Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
(in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.

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