Ringer

Quick meaning: Ringer is a noun meaning Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

Meaning

Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

More Meanings

1. (mining) A crowbar.
2. (ornithology) A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
3. (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
4. (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
5. (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
6. (UK, dialect) A top performer.
7. (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: hustler

Pull, if ye never pull′d before; Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.

This vast holding is run by six ringers and six boys. A ringer is a qualified stationhand and a boy is a trainee. It takes four years for a boy to become a ringer.

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.

Word Forms

• ringers

Synonyms for ringer

Depending on context, synonyms include hustler.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ringing, doorbell, snare, ring, buzzer, slugger.

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