ringer

Meanings

1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
2. A crowbar.

1. A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
2. A stockman, a cowboy.
3. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
4. A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

1. A top performer.
2. The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

1. Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
2. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
3. A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
4. A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.

1. A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).

1. An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
2. A ringer T-shirt.

1. A surname.

1. A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.

Etymology

From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.