(plural innings) (in cricket) a period of time in a game during which a team or a single player is BATTING
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sb had a good innings (BrE, informal) used about sb who has died to say that they had a long life:
How old was she? 84? Well, she had a good innings then.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for innings is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is innings a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, innings is tagged as noun.
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