ringers

Fraudulent competition substitutes

Ringers is the plural of ringer, which has two main senses.

A ringer is someone who rings bells, especially church bells.

More commonly, a ringer is a person or thing substituted fraudulently for another—originally a horse secretly swapped into a race: They brought in ringers to win the tournament.

A dead ringer is an exact double of someone.

In horseshoes, a ringer is a throw that encircles the stake.

bells

chime

Melodic bell sound

pealResonant ringing burst
tollFee for passage
clangLoud metallic sound

carillon · belfry · clapper · handbell · tower · bronze · tintinnabulation · knell · church · cathedral

impostors

lookalike

One who closely resembles another

doubleTwice the amount
doppelgangerSupernatural duplicate of oneself
impostorOne feigning another's identity

stand-in · decoy · fake · phony · sham · counterfeit · fraud · pretender · duplicate · twin

substitutes

replacement

What takes another's place

stand-inTemporary human placeholder
backupStored duplicate for recovery
reserveSupply kept back

alternate · fill-in · understudy · proxy · surrogate · sub · relief · second-string · benchwarmer · locum

horseshoes

horseshoe

Curved metal hoof protector

pitFruit's hard seed
stakeSharpened post or share
tossLight, casual throw

throw · pitch · leaner · game · backyard · picnic · tournament · points · iron · steel

ringers

chime

lookalike

replacement

horseshoe

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