bye

Noun (1)

bye (plural byes)

1. 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.
   • Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.
   • The Patriots were in the unique situation of having to play 16 straight games, then have their bye in week 17, whether they needed it or not.2020, Jerry Thornton, From Darkness to Dynasty
2. An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.
3. (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.
   • The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
4. (Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
   • Frank Kennedy will shew you the penalties in the act, and ye ken yoursell they used to put their run goods into the auld Place of Ellangowan up bye there.1815, Sir Walter Scott, Guy Manneringv
   • This was lattin at me, ye ken, for inveetin the coachman an' the gamekeeper up bye.1880, W. Alexander, Johnny Gibb
5. A pass.

Adjective

bye (comparative more bye, superlative most bye)

1. Out of the way; remote.
   • At length having gained a very bye Alley, where he thought he might enter into a Conference unnoticed by any who knew him.1765, The Parasite, page 194
   • I left Colchester at one o'clock, and had a very agreeable ride from thence to my Uncle's– It is a very bye road , I did not meet a carriage or horse all the way, which is I believe eleven or twelve miles, but however I turned this to good advantage, and availed myself of the rural ride and...1797, John Henry Prince, Original letters and essays on moral and entertaining subjects, page 85
2. Secondary; supplementary.
   • But the two labourers of whom I am speaking had their allowances, lived on their fixed wages with the profits of their bye labour, one being pig-killer to the village, and, therefore, always busy from Michaelmas to Lady-day, at a shilling a pig, and the offal, on which his family subsisted, wit h...1894, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Eight Chapters on the History of Work and Wages, page 138
   • As we shall see presently the wife of a craftsman almost always worked as her husband's assistant in his trade, or if not, she often eked out the family income by some such bye industry as brewing and spinning; sometimes she even practised a separate trade as a femme sole.2012, Eileen Power, Michael Moïssey Postan, Medieval Women, page 45

Interjection

1. (colloquial) Goodbye.
2. (slang, African-American Vernacular) An exclamation of disbelief or dismissal.
   • “Okay, busted. But you see all them muscles, girl?” She shakes her head, laughing. “Nope. I only have eyes for my boo.” “Girl, bye. You can still look.” She giggles. “Well, I ain’t lookin’ hard, trust.[…]”2015, Amir Abrams, Diva Rules, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 151
   • Rowlings-Blake responded: "Girl bye, if he can't take criticism from 'a joke', what's he gonna do when somebody real comes for him? #notready"2016 August 7, Susan Edelman, C.J. Sullivan, Bruce Golding, “Trump supporter's sign gets torched”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2022

   Synonyms:

   get out of here, applesauce, bender, bollocks, bosh, bugger off, bullcrap, bullcrud, bullfuck, bullshit

Noun (2)

bye (plural byes)

1. A command to exit a session.

Proper noun capitalized: Bye

Bye (plural Byes)

1. A surname.