ringmaster
verbEtymology From ring + master.
1
To act as ringmaster.
2
Figuratively To control (a group of people).
ringmaster
nounEtymology From ring + master.
1
The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.
2
Internet The person who maintains a webring.
- Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites.2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:
- Each of the member websites in a webring had a navigation area at the bottom of the page that had “next” and “previous” buttons directing surfers to other sites in the ring. […] People needed ringmasters because the number of sites aimed at women was exploding.2020, Lisa Levenstein, They Didn't See Us Coming:
- Derived terms
- ringmasterly, ringmastership