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dead ringer

noun

Etymology

See ringer (“substitute”) and ring the changes

Definitions

  1. Someone or something that very closely resembles another

    Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.

    • He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age.
    • In 1987, in “The Rules of Attraction,” he wrote about casual sex and obsessive drug use among bored students of a dead ringer for Bennington College, which Mr. Ellis attended.
    • On our next date, she told me I could come back home if I wanted to. There was one condition, though: couples counseling.

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