Definitions for ringer

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ringer ring·er

Spelling: [ring-er]

IPA: /ˈrɪŋ ər/

Ringer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in ringer (eginrr).

Definitions for ringer

noun

1. a person or thing that encircles, rings, etc.
2. a quoit or horseshoe so thrown as to encircle the peg.
3. the throw itself.
4. Also, ringers. Also called ring taw. Marbles. a game in which players place marbles in a cross marked in the center of a circle, the object being to knock as many marbles as possible outside the circle by using another marble shooter.
5. Australian. a highly skilled sheep shearer.
6. a person or thing that rings or makes a ringing noise:
7. dead ringer.
8. Slang. a racehorse, athlete, or the like entered in a competition under false representation as to identity or ability. a student paid by another to take an exam. any person or thing that is fraudulent; fake or impostor. a substitute or addition, as a professional musician hired to strengthen a school orchestra:

Origin of ringer

First recorded in 1815-25; ring¹ + -er¹

Examples for ringer

The CW moved Supernatural to Wednesdays, ordered five new shows, renewed Hart of Dixie, and canceled  Secret Circle and  ringer.

They had kind of a ringer girl come in and cause a disruption.

The Italian judicial system has essentially been put through the ringer in this case, and has come out stained.

Let them study the words “ringer” , “linger” , and “ginger” .

If the ringer was late the prentice boys reminded him pretty plainly.

Mrs. Stanton, but you are so confounded clever you might run in a "ringer."

He knew that he had only to hold up his ringer and say, “Watch, Moses!”

The e-cigarette needs no additional evidence that it is a ringer.

His ringer pointed to the last five words under the bar of music.

More than a ringer, it is yet another manifestation of the American genius at finding loopholes.