bye

4 definitions • 3 examples

goodbye:

Bye! See you next week!

If someone is given a bye, they are allowed to miss out part of a competition and continue to the next stage without having to win anything:

European teams were granted a bye into the third round of the Cup.

in cricket, a point scored when the batters (= the players who try to hit the ball) manage to run to the other end of the wicket (= the length of ground between the two sets of sticks) but the ball has not been hit:

I thought he had hit the ball but the umpire signalled a bye.

short form ofgoodbye