ringer

1. Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

   a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)

2. A crowbar.

3. A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.

   a person who is almost identical to another

4. (Australia)A stockman, a cowboy.

5. In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.

   (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg

6. (uncountable)A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

7. (UK, dialectal)A top performer.

8. (Australia)The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

9. (slang)Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.

10. A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

    Near-synonym: hustler

    In this next clip from the security camera, we see that the rube flashing his wad of cash thinks he'll win, but he doesn't realize that the guy in the gray shirt is a ringer.

11. A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.

12. (UK, slang)A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.

1. Tom is a dead ringer for John.

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2. They're dead ringers for each other.

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3. He's a dead ringer for his brother.

   deEr sieht seinem Bruder zum Verwechseln ähnlich.

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4. Many companies and entrepreneurs have been put through the ringer this year.

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5. Turn cell phone ringers off.

   ruОтключите звонки на телефонах.

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