RINGER

n. person or thing that rings; person or thing that encircles; dead ringer; double, simulacrum; person who enters or is substituted in a competition with the intent to defraud or deceive; (USA & Canada) marble game in which the players put marbles in cross shape inside the center of a circle and each player must knock as many marbles outside the circle by shooting with another marble; horseshoe thrown over a stake; one who rings church bell

Ringer can refer to:A superior contestant or specialist who is clandestinely brought into an event or team to bolster its capabilitiesThe Ringer is a 2005 comedy film starring Johnny Knoxville and Katherine HeiglThe mechanism in a telephone that announces an incoming callA decoyOne who plays bells, especially as related to campanologyAn ornithologist trained in bird ringingA term used in the game of horseshoes for a shoe that encircles the stake and is counted as 3 pointsRinger T-shirt, a style of T-shirt with a different color of fabric around the neck and sleevesRinger (comics), a Marvel Comics villainRoad course ringer, a non-NASCAR driver hired by a team to race at a road courseThe Ringer (episode), the first episode of The Legend of Zelda cartoon seriesA member of Tolkien fandom, however, the term is not universally used., a documentary on the subjectIn role playing games, a player character who is a direct or near-direct copy of a character in a work of popular fiction (derived from "dead ringer")A game piece used for scoring in the 2007 FIRST Robotics Competition game Rack 'n RollA type of crane mounted on a large ring, usually of very high capacityA stolen car whose vehicle identification number plate has been replaced The speed-shearer in the wool shed in Australian vernacular. (See the Australian song, 'Click go the Shears'.) Homosexually active man (in slang)
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Noun
1. a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
(synonym) toller, bell ringer
(hypernym) signaler, signaller
(derivation) ring, knell
2. a person who is almost identical to another
(synonym) dead ringer, clone
(hypernym) double, image, look-alike
(classification) colloquialism
3. a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
(hypernym) imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player
4. (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
(hypernym) throw
(classification) quoits, horseshoes

n. wrestler, one who wrestles, contestant whose object is to pin his opponent to the ground (Sports)

(n.)
One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
  

(n.)
A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
  

(n.)
A crowbar.