inningses

Noun

innings (plural innings or (rare) inningses)

1. 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.
2. A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.
3. (UK) The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
4. (UK, euphemistic) A person's lifespan.
   • 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.1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine