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- noun idiomatic Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is almost identical to another
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See ringer ("substitute") and ring the changes
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