DEAD RINGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dead ringer mean? 

• DEAD RINGER (noun)
  The noun DEAD RINGER has 1 sense:

1. a person who is almost identical to another

  Familiarity information: DEAD RINGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEAD RINGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is almost identical to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

clone; dead ringer; ringer

Hypernyms ("dead ringer" is a kind of...):

double; image; look-alike (someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

Although Bright, dead ringer, and MRF-2 preferentially bind to AT-rich sites, DNA binding of ARID-proteins is not necessarily sequence specific; ARID protein p270 of the SWI-SNF complex exhibits non-specific DNA binding activity.

(ARID Domain, NCI Thesaurus)