Associations to the word «Ringleader»

Wiktionary

RINGLEADER, noun. A leader of a group of people, especially an unofficial group
RINGLEADER, noun. A person who starts and leads a disturbance (such as a riot), a conspiracy, or a criminal gang

Dictionary definition

RINGLEADER, noun. A person who leads (especially in illicit activities).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope