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bye

1  [bahy]
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–noun 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.
–adjective
5. by 1 .
—Idiom
6. by the bye, by the way; incidentally: By the bye, how do you spell your name? Also, by the by.
Origin:
1710–20; var. sp. of by 1 in its n. sense “side way”
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bye 1 also by   (bī)   
n.  

  1. A secondary matter; a side issue.

  2. Sports The position of one who draws no opponent for a round in a tournament and so advances to the next round.


[From by1.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

bye  (2)
shortened form of good-bye. Reduplication bye-bye is recorded from 1709, though as a sound used to lull a child to sleep it is attested from 1636.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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