innings
noun /ˈɪnɪŋz/
/ˈɪnɪŋz/
(plural innings)
Idioms - (in cricket) a period of time in a game during which a team or a single player is batting
- Clarke’s 124 gives Surrey a useful first innings.
Idioms
somebody had a good innings
- (British English, informal) used about somebody who has died to say that they had a long life
- How old was she? 84? Well, she had a good innings then.