bye

noun

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.”

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.”

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.”

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

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

   “There's a friend of yours up bye that would be blithe to see you—up the rig from the auld aik on the road to the Greenshiel.”

5. A pass.
6. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling)Eye dialect spelling of boy.

   “"So what shall I do, now, Patric? Can you think of any plan? "Bedad!" said Pat , as he scratched his head , “ I'm the very bye that can."”

   “'Och,' sez I, 'there's many a bye that's lonely livin' rite wid his friends an' naybors. Sure an' I'm lonesome mesilf.'”

   “There a bye has his hand toorn off, and there a bye loses his eyesight complately, and over yan a bye has his joogular vein torn wid a whistlin' boom, and forninst that is the bye who thinks his gun isn't loaded and kills his little sisther.”

   “In thim days the bye who wint to work in the foundhry to learn the thrade, in goin' into the shop in the morning would meet a big, ruffneck boss wit his blue faunel shirt on and his schleeves rolled up to his ilbows, who could show him the mishtakes he made the day befoor, if he made any.”

   “I know a nice bye who's goin' to git two cookies fer thim worrds.”

7. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of bee.

adj

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.”

   “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 variegated prospects, which assisted me to meditate.”

   “So riding towards Cheshunt in the same county, he put into a bye sort of a house, a little out of the road, in which, finding only a poor old woman bitterly weeping, and asking the reason of shedding those tears, she told him, that she was a poor widow and being somewhat indebted for rent to her landlord whe expected him every minute to come and seize what few goods she had, which would be her utter ruin.”

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 the produce of their small curtilage, for half the year.”

   “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.”

   “It is the custom in some provinces to pay only according to the basic crops produced, but in others the share is calculated out of the total produce of the farm, both bye and main products.”

intj

1. (colloquial)Goodbye.
2. (slang)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.[…]””

   “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"”

   “Her jeans don't even got the loops for her damn belt LMFAO bye 😭”

   “"i wish to get back a couple of katycats that left my side" bye did she really say this..its so sad i love her sm 😢😔”

   “"I just want Johnny to leave me alone." Girl, bye. Control your lap dog.”

prep

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of by.

name

1. A surname.