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Ring, The(dictionary)
ring(encyclopedia)
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L ring(medicine)
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M ring(medicine)
P ring(medicine)

Ring a ring o' roses (oh)



BrE Ring around the rosy AmE
a children's singing game in which the children join hands and dance round in a circle singing: Ring a ring o'roses/A pocket full of posies/A-tishoo! A-tishoo!/We all fall down. People believe it comes from the time when there was a plague in London (=a very serious infectious disease, quickly causing death to large numbers of people), because when people coughed and sneezed, saying 'atishoo', it was a sign that they had caught the plague.