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]

Pronunciation

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Interjection

my bad

(colloquial, idiomatic) My fault; mea culpa.
Yes, I realize the car isn't supposed to be parked in the heirloom flowerbed. My bad.

Synonyms

mea culpa

Translations

my fault

Danish: min fejl
Finnish: minun vikani, minun moka (colloquial)
French: autant pour moi (fr)
German: mein Fehler
Hungarian: az én hibám, az én saram, én tehetek róla, én vagyok a hunyó, tévedtem
Latin: mea culpa
Portuguese: foi mal
Russian: мой кося́к (moj kosják) (slang)
Spanish: mala mía
Turkish: benim hatam

References

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

Further reading

my bad at OneLook Dictionary Search
Businessballs.com cliches and expressions origins

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