bottom of the inning

1. 1.

   the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat

   Synonymsbottom

   Broaderturn

   Part ofinning

Questions about bottom of the inning

What does bottom of the inning mean?

bottom of the inning means "the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat".

What is another word for bottom of the inning?

Close synonyms include bottom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bottom of the inning a common word?

bottom of the inning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.