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ringer
noun- a perfect resemblance US, 1891
Often intensified with DEAD- Around 10,000 people–wearing rear-vented Brooks Brothers flannels instead of flashy pinstripes, operating out of the suites in Radio City and the Squibb Building instead of drug-store phone booth, but all of them, in essence, dead ringers for Mort Robel. — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 38, 1954
- He was a dead ringer for me. — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 98, 1996
- an athlete or horse fraudulently entered in a game or race US, 1890
- We can balance that by getting ourselves a ringer. — M*A*S*H, 1970
- Impressed with Alf’s story and his overwhelming confidence, Sam passed the word to Davis that he should pull Three Gulls and back the “ringer”. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 173, 1982
- [O]n the day after the race he was put down, but it transpired that this was destroying the evidence in another ringer case. — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 141, 1991
- a false vehicle registration number plate US
- Blackie backed the car deftly into the barn and fixed the “ringers”[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 17, 1956
- a criminal who builds new cars from the parts of stolen cars UK
- — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 327, 1970
- a single inhalation of crack cocaine with a strong effect US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- a stockman AUSTRALIA
- Three of four bookies at the breakfast table were involved and at the next table were a bunch of ringers. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 136, 1979
- Every ringer in the place up north, or around 80 percent of them, is shacked up with a gin. — Sandra Jobson, Blokes, p. 168, 1984
- — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 132, 1986
- — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 33, 1994
- the fastest shearer in a shearing shed AUSTRALIA, 1871
- RINGER–The quickest shearer. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- They all looked at a white-haired man, their ringer and spokesman, and one nudged him forward. — Bill Wannan, Folklore of the Australian Pub, p. 58, 1972
- — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 88, 1976
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 77, 1977
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