my bad

English

Etymology

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] Compare semantics with Russian оплошность (oplošnostʹ, “mistake, bad”), from о- (o-) +‎ плох (plox, “bad”).

Pronunciation

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Interjection

my bad

  1. (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.

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References

  1. ^ Language Log - Pick-up basketballism reaches Ivy League faculty vocabulary. Accessed 2010-04-06.

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