ringers
Because it is a word with a single syllable, ringers is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofringers
- Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.
- A crowbar.
- (games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.
- (games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.
- A ringer T-shirt.
- A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.
Synonyms: hustler
- A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.
- A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer.
Synonyms: "dead ringer"
- A fraudulently cloned motor vehicle.
- A top performer.
- The champion shearer of a shearing shed.
- A stockman, a cowboy.
- Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.
- (in combination) An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.
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