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ring
verb- to provide one thing disguised as another UK, 1812
- He had the needle to me after that and used to ring my library books, lumbering me with Hegel and Kant when I had applied for Somerset Maugham[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 192, 1956
- to open and pilfer a cash register US
- Butch had warned me many times to never ring a cash register when there was nobody around to keep the person on the counter busy. — Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land, p. 31, 1965
- to shout BARBADOS
- — Frank A. Collymore, Barbadian Dialect, p. 93, 1965
▶ ring it on
to outwit someone UK- They have rung it on us. — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
▶ ring the bell- to make a successful attempt at something UK
Probably from a fairground challenge. - He had made two or three attempts at suicide, and his last one nearly rang the bell. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 26, 1966
- to achieve success beyond expectations US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 179, 1950
▶ ring the berries
in ice hockey, to hit the goalie with a hard shot between the legs CANADA- The puck, when you ring the berries, hits a special hard molded plastic protective cup, which gives off a high bong. — George Plimpton, Open Net, p. 42, 1985
▶ ring your chimes
to strike someone on the head with great force US- If their wives weren’t coming down after them it’d be the cops or some sonofabitch wanted to ring their chimes for them. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 102, 1981
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