Bye

Quick meaning: Bye is a noun meaning (cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.

Meaning

(cricket) An extra scored when the batsmen take runs after the ball has passed the striker without hitting either the bat or the batsman.

More Meanings

1. (Scotland) An unspecified way or place.
2. (card games) A pass.
3. Out of the way; remote.
4. Secondary; supplementary.
5. (colloquial) Goodbye.
6. 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.
7. (obsolete) A thing not directly aimed at; a secondary or subsidiary object, course, path, undertaking, issue, etc.

Example Sentences

Craig's Crew plays the bye next week.

No word of a new house-keeper down bye, Wull?

This was lattin at me, ye ken, for inveetin the coachman an' the gamekeeper up bye.

The Synod of Dort in some points condemneth, upon the by, even the discipline of the Church of England.

Word Forms

• byes

Synonyms for bye

Depending on context, synonyms include applesauce, bender, bollocks, bosh, bullcrap, bullcrud.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pass, bye-bye, adieu, arrivederci, sayonara, goodbye.

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