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UK
/ɹˈɪŋɡliːdɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɹɪŋˌɫidɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɪŋˌɫidɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who leads (especially in illicit activities)
How To Use ringleader In A Sentence
- And the music industry is about to crack down on the biggest file-sharing ringleaders.
- Not that he personally stole cars -- he'd quit in 1987 to become a ringleader. OUTCAST
- If the rebel American militias were beaten on the battlefield, their ringleaders could expect to be hanged as traitors.
- Not only the children of Israel, that had revolted from the temple, but the children of Judah too, that still adhered to it -- not only the common people, the men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, but those that should have reproved and restrained sin in others were themselves ringleaders in it, their kings and princes, their priests and prophets. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- Pasión gitana por sangre española (Gypsy Passion for Spanish Blood), by Víctor M. Ánchel, an award-winning novella about a clumsy American vampire who becomes the ringleader of a gang of bumbling petty criminals in Andalucía. MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part I )
- The ringleader was sentenced to eight years in prison.
- Did it hurl the seamstresses' ringleaders into chokey? Times, Sunday Times
- The ringleader of the gang had one hand loose but the other was tied to another robber's.
- The ringleaders were marked out for punishment.
- They then arrested the ringleaders. Times, Sunday Times