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English
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.[1] Compare semantics with Russian оплошность (oplošnostʹ, “mistake, bad”), from о- (o-) + плох (plox, “bad”).
Pronunciation
Interjection
my bad
- (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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Translations
my fault
- Danish: min fejl
- Finnish: minun vikani, minun moka (colloquial)
- French: autant pour moi (fr)
- German: mein Fehler
- Hungarian: az én hibám, az én saram, én tehetek róla, én vagyok a hunyó, tévedtem
- Latin: mea culpa
- Polish: mój błąd m, moja wina f, mea culpa (pl)
- Portuguese: foi mal
- Russian: мой кося́к (moj kosják) (slang)
- Spanish: mala mía, perdón (es), culpa mía, fallo mío
- Turkish: benim hatam
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