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bye (bī)

noun

  1. something incidental or secondary
  2. the privilege, granted a contestant in a tournament with, typically, an uneven number of participants, of not being paired with another contestant in the first round
  3. Cricket a run made on a bowled ball that the batsman does not touch

Etymology: var. of by

adjective

of secondary importance
bye Idioms

by the bye

incidentally

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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