extra innings
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3.7
- noun
- /ˈɛkstrə ˈɪnɪŋz/
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entradas adicionales
- The teams were tied at the end of nine innings, so they continued playing extra innings.
- go into extra innings
- won in extra innings
- extra innings game
Examples
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Boston led Baltimore for much of Saturday's game, then succumbed to a tie late, sending the game into extra innings.
Blog text (22) -
Uh, I heard it went to extra innings.
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And we go into extra innings here.
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That went into extra innings.
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We're one strike away from extra innings.
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And we go into extra innings here, huh?
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It means, we're going into extra innings.
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They say it's tied, going into extra innings.
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Brewers played extra innings with the Marlins yesterday.
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We're in extra innings.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
65
2.8
An extra period of play to break a tie
3
3.0
Time added to a tied game to decide the winner
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3.1
Extra time played after normal time when the score is tied to decide a winner
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'additional innings' is directly and compositionally derived from 'extra' (more/additional) + 'inning' (a period of play in baseball). A B1 learner who knows both constituent words (including the baseball sense of 'inning') can readily infer that 'extra innings' are additional periods played after the regular game, so the phrase is transparent.
Etymology
Extra innings comes from baseball: when a game is 'tied' after the regular nine innings, teams play extra innings until one team leads. So extra innings means 'extra time' or more chances to decide a winner.