innings Definition

innings
noun

1. cricket.
A team's or a player's turn at batting;
1b. The runs scored during such a turn;
1c. The quality of batting during it.
(Brit)
2. A period during which someone has an opportunity for action or achievement.

Idiom: have had a good innings

colloq
To have lived a long and eventful life. See also inning.

Etymology: 18c; Anglo-Saxon as innung, meaning ‘contents', ie what is put in.