Ring-in

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A replacement made at the last minute, often in a sporting context.
  2. 2
    A racehorse or greyhound fraudulently substituted for another in a race.
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    A person pretending to be someone else; an imposter.

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""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."

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