Crossword clues for ringer
ringer
- Good horseshoe toss
- Goal in horseshoes
- A dead ____
- Well-tossed horseshoe
- Unqualified player
- Someone who's really too good to be competing
- Quasimodo at work
- Pro taking part in amateur events
- Pro pretending to be an amateur
- Player who turns out to have mad skills
- Member of tribute band, perhaps
- Horseshoes feat
- Grantland successor, with “the”
- Dead __: look-alike
- Dead ___ (lookalike)
- Dead __
- Amateur who's really a pro
- Accomplishment in horseshoes
- Identical twins no longer in the belfry?
- Striking likeness
- Fake
- Good shot in quoits
- Horseshoes score
- A dead one looks like something else
- Player who's way too good, say
- (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- (informal) a person who is almost identical to another
- A contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
- Horseshoes hit
- Horseshoe hit
- Fraudulent contestant
- Campanologist’s double?
- One in church tower who looks like someone else?
- Bell that looks the same
- T-shirt type
- Illegal contestant
- Horseshoe score
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ringer \Ring"er\, n. (Horse Racing) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
Ringer \Ring"er\, n.
One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
(Mining) A crowbar.
--Simmonds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "one who rings" (a bell), agent noun from ring (v.1). In quoits (and by extension, horseshoes) from 1863, from ring (v.2). Especially in be a dead ringer for "resemble closely," 1891, from ringer, a fast horse entered fraudulently in a race in place of a slow one (the verb to ring in this sense is attested from 1812), possibly from British ring in "substitute, exchange," via ring the changes, "substitute counterfeit money for good," a pun on ring the changes in the sense of play the regular series of variations in a peal of bells (1610s). Meaning "expert" is first recorded 1918, Australian slang, from earlier meaning "man who shears the most sheep per day" (1871).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer. 2 (context mining English) A crowbar. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context games English) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole. 2 (context uncountable games English) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground. Etymology 3
n. 1 (context horse racing English) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse. 2 (context sport English) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team. 3 A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; ''now usually in the phrase dead ringer''. Etymology 4
n. 1 (context UK dialect English) A top performer. 2 (context Australia English) The champion shearer of a shearing shed. 3 (context Australia English) A stockman, a cowboy.
WordNet
n. a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) [syn: toller, bell ringer]
a person who is almost identical to another [syn: dead ringer, clone]
a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
(horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
Wikipedia
Ringer(s) may refer to:
- Ringer, in sports idiom, an impostor, especially one whose pretense is intended to gain an advantage in a competition
- Ringer (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
- Ringer (EP), an EP by Four Tet
- Ringer T-shirt, a style of T-shirt
- Bell-ringer, one who plays bells, especially church bells
- Road course ringer, a non-NASCAR driver hired to race at a road course
- Lactated Ringer's solution, also known as Ringer's, a fluid used in medical treatment
- Intravenous sugar solution usually glucose
- Stockman (Australia), known as a ringer in the Top End
- The mechanism in a telephone that announces an incoming call
- In horseshoes, a shoe that encircles the stake
- A member of Tolkien fandom
- Ringers: Lord of the Fans, a documentary on the subject
- An ornithologist trained in bird ringing
- A game piece used for scoring in the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition game Rack 'n Roll
- Ringer (film), a 1996 thriller starring Timothy Bottoms
- Ringer (TV series), a CW show starring Sarah Michelle Gellar
Ringer is the name of three comic book supervillains in the Marvel Comics Universe.
Ringer is an EP by Kieran Hebden under the name Four Tet. It was released on 21 April 2008 in the UK, and is Hebden's first major release of original solo material since 2005's Everything Ecstatic Part 2.
Ringer is an American television series that initially aired on The CW from September 13, 2011 to April 17, 2012. The series stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, who plays twin sisters Bridget Kelly and Siobhan Martin. On May 13, 2011, it was reported that the project had been picked up to series by The CW. On October 12, 2011, The CW ordered a full first season of 22 episodes.
Ringer received mixed reviews, though most critics praised Gellar's performance. On May 11, 2012, The CW announced the cancellation of Ringer after one season.
Usage examples of "ringer".
Felicia took note of the fashionably low neckline, and her hand crept up to ringer the delicate aerophane crepe that fashioned the upper portion of her bodice, then formed a ruff at her neck.
Reglia drove on, accepting the punishment in exchange for getting his ringers into that all-important ooglith cloaker release point.
Uncle Vernon furiously, but Dumbledore raised his ringer for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
But on both sides, Boba Fett would have his ringers and stoolies, feeding him useful information and helping to drive even more wedges of suspicion and greed between one bounty hunter and the next.
Which is an odd thing to call a world but the Ringers who settled worlds like that, worlds away and away from the empires and the commanderies and the commensalities, away away from the traderoads and the sweeplines, those Flingers were without doubt the oddest folk a sun ever shone on.
Then Hiram threw old Mux and Ringer and Curley, but he let Queen alone.
I suggest we settle this at Quoits, Sir, Megs at forty Feet, Ringers only.
Not a purring twenty-first-century American slimline, but an old-style, Brit double ringer the phone clanged like Big Ben on my nightstand.
The ringer of sun that had reached out across the eastern turret had sopped up the dew drops that had marked its way.
Lo Manto had been involved in enough force-of-arms situations to know it was often best to stay silent, answer only in short sentences, and play the room as ignorant as a bell ringer.
Not only why protection was necessary, but why an unringed ringer should risk everything to get at the head of General Gyro?
She was behind me, drinking white wine, gossiping with Miles, the photo editor, a gaunt, stubble-chinned Englishman whose ringers were stained with nicotine.
He dipped his ringers into a wooden tub and began slathering his face with butterfat, which was what we used for makeup remover in those days.
I switch off the ringer on my phone, turn off my reading lamp, and roll onto my stomach.
Suppose they kidnapped or killed the real Bigelow and substituted the dead ringer.