my bad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. My fault; mea culpa.
  2. sorry

Pronunciation

En-au-my bad.ogg

Word forms

my bad

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

Synonyms

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