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  • noun Plural form of ringer.

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Examples

  • "Bringing in ringers" is one term that used to be used for such actions in the beer leagues.

    Era of hired guns is upon us in the NHL 2008

  • I do not often toss in ringers in my commercial tastings but I love to do it with my friends.

    Ringer wines | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Greer, like all white ringers, is completely full of crap and must make things up as they have no credible ideas or arguments.

    White House says speech to students not altered 2009

  • The orchestra and cast did contain a few ringers from the LA Opera orchestra as well as Jason Stearns as Noye and Phyllis Pancella as Noye's wife.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The orchestra and cast did contain a few ringers from the LA Opera orchestra as well as Jason Stearns as Noye and Phyllis Pancella as Noye's wife.

    After the 2007

  • But the site is overrun with tea partiers so there isn’t much support for the crashing, whistling, bell ringers from the Coffee Party that have threatened to come disrupt the speakers.

    Crashing the ‘Crashing the Tea Party’ Meme. | RedState 2010

  • This year, I don’t have much to spare, so I give to the bell-ringers from the Salvation Army.

    What Would Linus Do? | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • And then it turned out that the ringers were a consistent result for the woman who wrote the test we happened to use for the non-random input.

    Changed Man and the King of Words Card, Orson Scott 1979

  • Dr. Gilman developed a method of identifying horses, equivalent to human fingerprinting, that is still used to help detect "ringers" - that is, impostors - by taking photographs of vestigial growths, known as chestnuts or night eyes, that every horse has on the inside of its legs and that are unique to each.

    NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2011

  • The site extends the Hawk franchise into voice tones and name ringers recorded by Hawk; graphics, ringtones and "Sound FX."

    ClickZ News Blog 2009

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