my bad
English edit
Etymology edit
Pick-up basketball slang popularized (but not first coined) by Manute Bol, a basketball player of Sudanese origin playing with the Golden State Warriors, and subsequently adopted by teammates.[1]
Pronunciation edit
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Interjection edit
- (colloquial, idiomatic) My fault; mea culpa.
- Yes, I realise the car isn't supposed to be parked in the heirloom flowerbed. My bad.
- 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless:
- DMV Tester: Watch out for the bike rid…!
Cher: [swerving car to avoid cyclist] Oops! My bad!
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:my bad.
Synonyms edit
Translations edit
my fault
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References edit
- ^ Language Log - Pick-up basketballism reaches Ivy League faculty vocabulary. Accessed 2010-04-06.
Further reading edit
- “my bad”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Businessballs.com cliches and expressions origins