ring-in
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- A replacement made at the last minute, often in a sporting context.
- A racehorse or greyhound fraudulently substituted for another in a race.
- An outsider.
- 1967, Elspeth Huxley, Their Shining Eldorado: A Journey through Australia, page 97:
- "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.
- A person pretending to be someone else; an imposter.