ringer
(noun) (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
ringer
(noun) a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
ringer, dead ringer, clone
(noun) a person who is almost identical to another
toller, bell ringer, ringer
(noun) a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Ringer
A surname.
Ringer (plural Ringers)
(fandom slang) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.
• Ringnut
• Tolkiendil, Tolkienian, Tolkienist, Tolkienite
• Griner, erring, gerrin', girner
ringer (plural ringers)
Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
(mining) A crowbar.
ringer (plural ringers)
(games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
(uncountable, 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.
ringer (plural ringers)
(sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
Synonym: hustler
(horse racing) 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.
Synonym: dead ringer
(UK, slang) A fraudulently cloned motor vehicle.
ringer (plural ringers)
(UK, dialect) A top performer.
(Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
(Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
ringer (plural ringers)
(slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
ringer (plural ringers)
(UK, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
• Griner, erring, gerrin', girner
Source: Wiktionary
Ring"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
2. (Mining)
Definition: A crowbar. Simmonds.
Ring"er, n. (Horse Racing)
Definition: A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
