ringer
ri nger
- n a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
- n a person who is almost identical to another
- n a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
- n (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- A donation is made into a Salvation Army bell ringer's red Holiday donation kettle.
- Carmack, their programming ringer, was a 23-year-old who had spent a year in juvie and completed exactly two semesters at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
- With his belly hiding his belt, with his red suspenders and white beard, Glen Parshall is a dead ringer for Santa Claus, except for the snub-nosed pistol he keeps tucked in his .