innings
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈɪn.ɪŋz/
From the old verb inn ("to house corn").
Nouninnings (plural innings)
- (cricket) One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.
- A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.
- (British) The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
- (British, euphemistic) A person's lifespan.
- 1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine:
- Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.
- plural form of inning
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