ringer

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/rˈɪŋər/

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout′s Australia, Walkabout magazine, page 107, The ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities.
In this next clip from the security camera, we see that the rube flashing his wad of cash thinks he'll win, but he doesn't realize that the guy in the gray shirt is a ringer.
Near-synonym: hustler

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Pull, if ye never pull′d before; Good ringers, pull your best," quoth he.
1863, Jean Ingelow, High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire
It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional tally-hunter (most of us, if we are honest), the full-time observatory workers (exhibiting the highest standards of discipline) and the growing group of full-blooded rarity collectors (self-styled ‘twitchers’, covering individually up to 30,000 miles in their annual pursuit of ‘lifers’).
1970, D.I.M. Wallace, “The first ten years of the Rarities Committee”, in British Birds, volume 63, number 3, London, page 124
I mean, he knows we never handed off the briefcase, but he never asked for it back. The million bucks was never in the briefcase! The asshole was hoping that they would kill her! You threw out a ringer for a ringer!
1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges)
[…] shabby baseball caps, faded and worn-out T-shirts, ringers and polos with artificially aged hems […]
2007, Descant, number 138, page 28
The shirts were light blue heather ringers with royal blue trim on the necks and sleeves.
2011, Buck Peden, Baseball, Golf, Wars, Women & Puppies: An Autobiography, page 278

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From Middle English ringere, rynger, ryngar, equivalent to ring (“to sound a bell”) + -er.