ringer
n. 套环, 投环, 按铃者, 敲钟者
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词形变化
释义与例句
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1.
Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
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2.
A crowbar.
商务 采矿 -
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A person who places rings or bands on a bird's leg.
生物 动物学 -
2.
A stockman, a cowboy.
澳大利亚1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout′s Australia, Walkabout magazine, page 107, The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
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3.
In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
游戏 -
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A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
不可数 游戏 -
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A top performer.
英国 方言 -
2.
The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
澳大利亚 -
1.
Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
俚语 -
2.
A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
体育 动物学 -
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A fraudulently cloned (or cut-and-shut) motor vehicle.
英国 俚语 -
4.
A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
体育Near-synonym: hustler
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.
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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).
That man over there is an exact ringer for my father!
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An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
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A ringer T-shirt.
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词源
From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.
来源：wiktionary