bye

Plural: byes

Noun

• Something secondary or incidental; a pass into the next round.
• you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
  • "he had a bye in the first round"
• a farewell remark
  • "they said their good-byes"
• The position of a person or team in a tournament or competition who draws no opponent in a particular round so advances to the next round unopposed, or is awarded points for a win in a league table; also the phantom opponent of such a person or team.
• An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
• A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
• An unspecified way or place.
• A pass.
• Eye dialect spelling of boy.
• Obsolete spelling of bee.

Adj

• Out of the way; remote.
• Secondary; supplementary.

Intj

• Goodbye.
• An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.

Prep

• Obsolete spelling of by.

Examples

• Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
• He got a BYE in the tournament’s first round, meaning fewer words to play.

Synonyms

adieu, adios, arrivederci, au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bye-bye, cheerio, good day, good-by, good-bye, goodby, goodbye, pass, sayonara, so long, Hookey Walker, Walker, applesauce, bender, bollocks, bosh, bugger off, bullcrap, bullcrud, bullfuck, bullshit, c'mon, chinny reckon, codswallop, come off it, come on, fiddle, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, fiddlefart, fiddlestick, fiddlesticks, flummery, fuck off, gertcha, get away, get out of here, get out of it, get out of town, get outta here, get to fuck, gimme a break, give over, go on, harumph, horse hockey, horsefeathers, horseshit, it's got bells on, it's got brass bells on, malarkey, no, no way, nonsense, pshaw, pshh, pshht, pssh, pssht, pull the other leg, pull the other one, right, rubbish, stroll on, tell it to Sweeney, tell it to the judge, tell it to the marines, tell me another one, yeah, you're having me on, you're pulling my leg

Related Words

beddy-bye, sleepy-bye

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