English Explanatory Dictionary

dead ringer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.

Pronunciation

en-au-dead ringer.ogg

Word forms

dead ringer dead ringers dead-ringer deadringer

Etymology

See ringer (“substitute”) and ring the changes

Synonyms

spitting image double doppelganger lookalike
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