Citations:my bad

English citations of my bad

my fault

• 1987 April, Chuck Wielgus with Alexander Wolff, Back-In-Your-Face Guide to Pick-Up Basketball: A Have-Jump-Shot, Will-Travel Tour of America's Hoops Hotspots, Dodd Mead, →ISBN, →OL:

  My bad, an expression of contrition uttered after making a bad pass or missing an opponent.

• 1989 January 27, David DuPree, “Spurs hampered by costly injuries”, in USA Today, page 06.C:

  After making a bad pass, instead of saying "my fault," Manute Bol says, "my bad." Now all the other Warriors say it too.

• 1995, Clueless, spoken by Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone):

  [swerving car to avoid cyclist] Whoops, my bad.

• 1997 October 31, Philip L. Clarke as Perils of Magic Voice, Zork: Grand Inquisitor [video game], Activision:

  In 773 GUE, a local civil servant caused unspeakable devastation to the city of Mareilon when he attempted to cast zemdor, a spell that turns originals into triplicate, and accidentally cast zimbor, a spell designed to turn one really big city into tiny little ashes. He reportedly apologized to the city with the words, “Whoops, my bad.”

• 1997 November 17, Bob Greene, quoting Bert Vaux, “If you heard this phrase here first ...”, in Chicago Tribune‎^[1]:

  "But I do think that this did, indeed, begin in urban centers among young men playing sports. You would typically hear it if a person made a bad pass or something. He'd say 'My bad' -- he'd be telling his teammates that he knew it was his fault."

• 1997 December 28, Andrew Ratner, “It's not 'sorry,' it's 'my bad'”, in The Baltimore Sun‎^[2]:

  "My bad," he said, beating his chest.
  My bad? It didn't take me long to realize he meant "my fault," which as a mode of apology apparently is as outdated as calling one's girlfriend his "steady."

• 2004 February 20, “Blush” (15:35), in Kim Possible, season 2, episode 22, spoken by Wade (Tahj Mowry), via Disney Channel:

  My bad! I never got around to actually installing the chute. It's sitting here in my closet.

• 2006 February 21, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart‎^[3], season 11, episode 26, Jon Stewart (actor), via Comedy Central:

  How powerful a man do you have to be to able to shoot someone in the face and have that guy say, "My bad"?

• 2011 April 19, Albert "Prodigy" Johnson, My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →OL, page 70:

  Busta's real tall, about six foot three, so he looked down at me and said, “My bad, shorty, it was a mistake.”

• 2012 January 21, “The Last Roundup” (2:40), in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, season 2, episode 14, spoken by Derpy (Tabitha St. Germain):

  Oops! My bad!