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Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Interjection
- 1.3.1 Synonyms
- 1.3.2 Translations
- 1.4 References
- 1.5 Further reading
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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]
Pronunciation[edit]
Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23Audio (AU) (file)
Interjection[edit]
Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23 My fault; mea culpa.
- Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:my bad.
Synonyms[edit]
- Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
Translations[edit]
Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Danish: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Finnish: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23, Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23 (colloquial)
- French: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- German: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Hungarian: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23, Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23, Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23, Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23, Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Latin: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Polish: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23, Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23, Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Portuguese: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Russian: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23 (slang)
- Spanish: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
- Turkish: Lua error: Unmatched close-bracket at pattern character 23
References[edit]
- ^ Language Log - Pick-up basketballism reaches Ivy League faculty vocabulary. Accessed 2010-04-06.
Further reading[edit]
- “my bad”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- Businessballs.com cliches and expressions origins
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