extra innings

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   overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball

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Questions about extra innings

What does extra innings mean?

extra innings means "overtime play until one team is ahead at the end of an inning; e.g. baseball".

Is extra innings a common word?

extra innings 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.