by-pass

From by- +‎ pass.

by-pass (plural by-passes)

1. Alternative form of bypass

   the Colnbrook By-Pass on the A4

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 17–18:

     In The Bus We Loved (2005) Travis Elborough describes the New Road [now named Euston Road and Marylebone Road] as 'London's first by-pass ... a kind of perimeter fence, a here be yokels boundary line between the burgeoning town and the country'.

• pass by