inning

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a turn or period of activity, especially a renewed opportunity to speak or act

   Mary Jane took another inning and tried once more to explain her position.

2. 2
   noun

   baseball: one of the divisions of a game in which each team has a turn at bat

   The home team scored three runs in the seventh inning.

3. 3
   noun

   a player's or team's turn at the table in billiards or a similar game

   Her inning ended when the cue ball dropped into a pocket.

Back-formed from innings after speakers interpreted its final -s as a plural ending. The sporting noun later developed the figurative sense of a person's turn or period of activity, which is the sense used in Huckleberry Finn.

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