ringmaster

plural ringmasters

1. The person who manages the performers in a circus ring.
2. InternetThe 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

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   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

present singular third person ringmasters · participle present ringmastering · participle past ringmastered · past ringmastered

1. To act as ringmaster.
2. figurativelyTo control (a group of people).