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ring-in en · NOUN
Meanings
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A replacement made at the last minute, often in a sporting context.
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A racehorse or greyhound fraudulently substituted for another in a race.
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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, Elspeth Huxley, Their Shining Eldorado: A Journey through Australia, page 97:
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A person pretending to be someone else; an imposter.
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