What is Ringer?
1.
Any type of contestant in a game who is entered in order to cheat. For example, a professional bowler who plays in an amateur bowling match.
You lost because you were up against a ringer.
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2.
A person who you barely know that you bring/send to a party to make things interesting. Can also be someone you find on the street a few blocks away.
Who's that ringer you left at my house last night? I couldn't get rid of that guy for days. He shit on my brother's rug.
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3.
A Counter-Strike term (used in other games, too) that means a person that plays in a scrim or war against as a member of the clan, but is not actually in the clan.
We only need one more person, hey Bob wanna be a ringer?
4.
N: At Burger King when you order a side of fries sometimes you accidentally get an onion ring in there. This is called a ringer.
Paul: "Dude, how are those fries? Can I have one?"
John: "Sweet! I got a ringer!"
*holds up onion ring*
Paul: "You aren't even listening to me, are you?"
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5.
A car that has had it's number plate and serial numbers changed. this could be so that a recently stolen car cannot be identified by
Terry Mccann (Dennis Waterman) in Minder to Des( George Layton) after he was set up by delivering a 'hot' car - "It was a ringer and you bloody rung it"
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6.
Used to describe hardcore fans of The Lord of the Rings, much like the term Trekkie for Star Trekk nerds.
He dressed up as Aragorn because he was a Ringer.
7.
some who says their younger than they really are
"see that obafemi martins? hes a ringer man, hes really 30 you know!"
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