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ring-in
noun- an illegal competitor substituted for another in a race AUSTRALIA, 1918
- A smartie entered a ring-in for a Maiden Handicap at a bush race meeting. He entered her as an eight-year-old mare unraced. The mare duly bolted in by 10 lengths. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 110, 1975
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 77, 1977
- — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 38, 1982
- — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 187, 1986
- “[C]an you dolly up the ring-in so he can pass for Tama?” — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 132, 1988
- any surreptitious substitute AUSTRALIA
- But the pimps had to be trusted to a large extent in police inquiries, and to make sure that they were not ring-ins from the underworld they were screened thoroughly by the police who used them. — Vince Kelly, The Bogeyman, p. 71, 1956
- one who doesn’t belong; an outsider AUSTRALIA
- She contemplated her description of Buchanan as a feisty fast-talking ring-in from the sticks. — Rodney Hall, Kisses of the Enemy, p. 97, 1987
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