Usually means: Substitute excelling in another's place.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word ringer:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ringer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Ringer, ringer, ringer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ringer, ringer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ringer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ringer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ringer, ringer: Wordnik
  7. Ringer, ringer: Wiktionary
  8. ringer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ringer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ringer: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ringer, ringer: Dictionary.com
  12. ringer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ringer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ringer (EP), Ringer (TV series), Ringer (comics), Ringer, The Ringer (Eminem song), The Ringer (album), The Ringer (episode), The Ringer (song), The Ringer (website), The Ringer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ringer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ringer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ringer: Rhymezone
  18. Ringer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ringer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ringer: Free Dictionary
  21. ringer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ringer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Ringer: World Wide Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ringer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ringer: Idioms
  2. ringer: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ringer, ringer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ringer: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Ringer: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. ringer, the ringer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ringering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
noun:  (mining) A crowbar.
noun:  (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
noun:  (uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
noun:  A ringer T-shirt.
noun:  (UK, dialect) A top performer.
noun:  (Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
noun:  (Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.
noun:  (slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
noun:  (sports) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
noun:  (horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
noun:  (UK, slang) A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
noun:  A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other; a look-alike (now usually in the phrase dead ringer).
noun:  (UK, military, informal, in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (fandom slang) A fan of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien and/or the film trilogy based on it.

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