ringer

  1. Noun.  Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
  2. Noun.  In the game of horseshoes, when the horseshoe lands around the pole.
  3. Noun.  (uncountable) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
  4. Noun.  A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
  5. Noun.  A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other. (Now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
  6. Noun.  A person with orange or red hair, often used as an insult.
  7. Noun.  (UK, dialect) A top performer.
  8. Noun.  (Australia) A stockman; a drover.

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