byes
- 1Plural of bye.
The tournament's top seeds earned byes through the opening round.
The batsmen added several byes when the ball slipped past the keeper.
Note
A regular -s plural that does most of its work in sport. In a draw, several teams can receive byes in the same round, each advancing unopposed. In cricket, byes are extras: runs taken after the ball has passed the striker without touching bat or batsman. In dialect writing the same spelling can also stand for boys, an eye-dialect rendering of the pronunciation.
byes is a form of bye
bye, noun: The position of a player or team that draws no opponent in a given round and so advances unopposed, or is credited with a win in the standings; also the imaginary opponent itself. Full entry
- Forms
- byebyes plural
- Spelling
- bye → byes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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