Associations to the word «Ringer»

Wiktionary

RINGER, noun. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
RINGER, noun. (mining) A crowbar.
RINGER, noun. (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
RINGER, noun. (uncountable) (games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
RINGER, noun. (horse racing) A horse fraudently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
RINGER, noun. (sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
RINGER, 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.
RINGER, noun. (UK) (dialect) A top performer.
RINGER, noun. (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
RINGER, noun. (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
RINGER, noun. (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.
RINGER EQUIVALENCE NUMBER, noun. (telecommunications) A number denoting the electrical load of a telephone ringer circuit on a particular line.

Dictionary definition

RINGER, noun. A person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation).
RINGER, noun. A person who is almost identical to another.
RINGER, noun. A contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses.
RINGER, noun. (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg.

Wise words

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.