my bad

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”).

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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!

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