DictionarybyePronunciation: (bī), [key] —n. Also,by. 1. Sports.in a tournament, the preferential status of a player or team not paired with a competitor in an early round and thus automatically advanced to play in the next round: The top three seeded players received byes in the first round. 2. Golf.the holes of a stipulated course still unplayed after the match is finished. 3. Cricket.a run made on a ball not struck by the batsman. 4. something subsidiary, secondary, or out of the way. 5. by the bye, by the way; incidentally: By the bye, how do you spell your name? Also,by the by. —adj. by1. byePronunciation: (bī), [key] —interj. by2. bye-var. of by-: bye-election. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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