Sekirov Dictionary

ring-in

noun 4
ring in verb 3
forms 6

noun4

A replacement made at the last minute, often in a sporting context.
A racehorse or greyhound fraudulently substituted for another in a race.
A person pretending to be someone else; an imposter.
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An outsider.
- "But I couldn't get into an underground contract party because I'm a ring-tail, or ring-in." That means an outsider, one not born in Broken Hill. — 1967

ring in verb3

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To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
- We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.
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To make a phone call to (this place).
- John has just rung in sick. He won't be back till Monday, he says.
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To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.
- All the world was only the two Copleigh girls, Saumarez and I, ringed in with the lightning and the dark; and the guidance of this misguided world seemed to lie in my hands. — 1888

forms

ringed in · rang in · rung in · ringing in · rings in · ring-ins

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