Crossword clues for ringleader
ringleader
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ringleader \Ring"lead`er\, n.
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The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals.
A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance.
--Barrow. -
Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like.
The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 a leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group 2 a person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang
WordNet
n. a person who leads (especially in illicit activities)
Wikipedia
A ringleader is a leader of a group of people.
Ringleader may also refer to:
- Ringmaster (circus), the leader of a circus performance
- Ringleader (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
- Ringleader of the Tormentors, an album by the singer Morrissey
- The Ringleader: Mixtape Volume III, an album by the disc jockey DJ Maj
Usage examples of "ringleader".
Others supposed that it would now assume a worse form, in consequence of the absence of those restraints which the superior sagacity of the arch agitator laid upon the more fiery and imprudent ringleaders.
Thascius Cyprianus should be immediately beheaded, as the enemy of the gods of Rome, and as the chief and ringleader of a criminal association, which he had seduced into an impious resistance against the laws of the most holy emperors, Valerian and Gallienus.
The second was a seventeen-year-old who was the ringleader of the gang, a vile bigot who earlier had fired a shot into the home of the couple.
Scripture that Ham, who was the old ringleader of the niggars, was made black on purpose.
Because he had been described by several of the afflicted and confessors as the ringleader of the witch conspiracy, a large crowd sought a place in the courtroom to watch Burroughs face the Court of Oyer and Terminer on August 5.
It was their top story the next day, morphed in alternation with a shot of the Purist ringleaders, heads covered by police coats, marching to the paddy wagons.
Many influential people, Thomas Cedarbird being the ringleader, would like to see them put back in their places, shoved down into the gutters and ghettoes from which Aejys had rescued them.
So what he done, he took a bead and skinned half the handlebar mustache off of the ringleader, who had stood up in the boat and was hollering about how E.
Katya and Vera were the ringleaders, Leonid chuckled at the influence they had in their squadron.
He immediately announced that no more rations should be issued until its whereabouts was revealed and the, ringleaders in the attempt to escape delivered up to him.
April 1849 the Petrashevsky circle was broken up by the tsarist police, and its ringleaders, including Dostoevsky, were arrested and charged with subversion.
The authour of The Rambler, however, may be considered, on this occasion, as the ringleader of a successful riot, though not as a skilful pyrotechnist.
With him in the car was Kamal Derwish, the ringleader of the Lackawanna cell.
The rankers got sent back to Antioch and the ringleaders were executed.
It was conceived in the following terms: "That Thascius Cyprianus should be immediately beheaded, as the enemy of the gods of Rome, and as the chief and ringleader of a criminal association, which he had seduced into an impious resistance against the laws of the most holy emperors, Valerian and Gallienus.