Dinger vs. Ringer: What's the Difference?

A bell or chime.

A horseshoe or quoit thrown so that it encircles the peg.

The suspended clapper of a bell.

One that rings, especially one that sounds a bell or chime.

One who rings a bell.

A contestant entered dishonestly into a competition.

(baseball) A home run.

A person with a special skill who is not affiliated with a group but is recruited to assist temporarily with a specific task.

The penis.

(Slang) See dead ringer.

Something outstanding or exceptional, a humdinger.

Someone who rings, especially a bell ringer.

A condom.

(mining) A crowbar.

(Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.

(games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.

(Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.

A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

An unregistered car.

A ringer T-shirt.

(sport) A person highly proficient at a skill or sport who is brought in, often fraudulently, to supplement a team.

(horse racing) A horse fraudulently entered in a race using the name of another horse.

A person, animal, or entity which resembles another so closely as to be taken for the other, now usually in the phrase dead ringer.

A fraudulently cloned motor vehicle.

A top performer.

(Australia) The champion shearer of a shearing shed.

(Australia) A stockman, a cowboy.

(slang) Any person or thing that is fraudulent; a fake or impostor.

(slang) A look-alike.

An officer having the specified number of rings (denoting rank) on the uniform sleeve.

One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.

A crowbar.

A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

A person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)

A person who is almost identical to another

A contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses

(horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg