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my bad

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Etymology

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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.

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