Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

my bad

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.49 in modern English

Syllables
my bad
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

intj

My fault; mea culpa.

Colloquial

intj

sorry

Colloquial

Example Sentences

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”).

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

my b (alternative, clipping) mb (alternative, initialism)

Synonyms

mea culpa

Questions

What does my bad mean?
My fault; mea culpa.
Where does my bad come from?
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”).

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