Definition of "dead ringer" []

• Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another. (noun)

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• "He had jet-black hair topping a pink, cherubic face, and with the deep permanent creases of laughter lines radiating from his eyes and curving around his mouth, he was a dead ringer for the cheerful, happy-golucky extrovert who is the life and soul of the party where the guests park their brains along with their hats and coats."
• "Underneath it the silhouette of a long-haired, wasp-waisted, and overly endowed woman kind of a dead ringer for Sheila swung from one side of a pole to another."
• "Three men were standing around holding drinks: a Semitic-looking guy in tweeds, a small, trim number wearing a tennis sweater and white ducks, and a dead ringer composite for HIM — a silver-maned man pushing fifty, topping six feet by at least two inches, as lanky as Mal Considine but ten times as handsome."