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ˈringster
[f. ring n.1 11 b + -ster.]
1. U.S. A member of a political ring.
1875Chicago Tribune 15 Dec. 4/1 The support secured for Mayor Cobb was sufficient..to defeat the unholy alliance of ringsters and politicians by which Boardman's nomination was first obtained. 1881Philadelphia Rec. No. 3428. 2 It seems to be folly to try to break the ranks of the ringsters at Harrisburg who oppose the consideration of the Tax bill. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. iii. lxiii. II. 461 The attachment of the ringster is usually given wholly to the concrete party. 1908Nation 16 Apr. 344/3 Hereafter the word [grafter] cannot be lightly used as a synonym for any malefactor at the head of a corporation, or any political ringster.
2. U.S. A member of a price-ring. Cf. ring n.1 11 a.
1878Congress. Rec. 20 Mar. 1915/1 As the honest contractor will not go into a business where he has to evade the law, the ringster has it all his own way. 1879Harper's Mag. Oct. 717 The inopportune arrival of several cargoes of Texan beef broke the ring and ruined the ringsters. 1904I. M. Tarbell Hist. Standard Oil Co. I. 107 ‘Deserters’, ‘ringsters’, ‘monopolists’ were the terms applied.
3. A boxer.
1926G. Carpentier Art of Boxing 5 Some ‘ringsters’—I use this word in a particular sense, as you will see—have severely battered countenances after a career of a few years as pugilists. 1965Eng. Stud. XLVI. 465 A boxer, among scores of other appellations, may be..a ringster. |