| Noun | 1. | ringer - a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation) | |
| 2. | ringer - a person who is almost identical to anothercolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech look-alike, double, image - someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" | |
| 3. | ringer - a contestant entered in a competition under false pretensesfaker, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer, pretender, fraud, fake - a person who makes deceitful pretenses | |
| 4. | ringer - (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or pegthrow - the act of throwing (propelling something through the air with a rapid movement of the arm and wrist); "the catcher made a good throw to second base" horseshoes, quoits - a game in which quoits or horseshoes are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it | |