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my bad

intj

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”).

  1. derived from оплошность — “mistake, bad”

Definitions

  1. My fault

    My fault; mea culpa.

    • Yes, I realise the car isn't supposed to be parked in the heirloom flowerbed. My bad.
    • DMV Tester: Watch out for the bike rid…! Cher: [swerving car to avoid cyclist] Oops! My bad!

  2. sorry

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for my bad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA