English[]
Etymology[]
African American Vernacular English (General American would be baby's mama), possibly influenced by Jamaican Creole baby-mother (“‘pregnant woman’”).
Noun[]
- (US, slang) The mother of one's child when the woman is not currently (and likely was never) the man's primary or exclusive partner.
- She's not his girlfriend now, but she's one of his baby mamas.
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Quotations[]
For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
References[]
- Where Do "Baby-Daddies" Come From? The origins of the phrase. by Julia Turner, Slate, posted Sunday, May 7, 2006.
- "What did Joe Louis have to tell us about Tina Fey?" on Language Log, December 10, 2008
- http://web.archive.org/web/20080615134841/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jlDT1TfqoK4Glx0Jy1SaWOoqsh7g
- http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_061308/content/01125113.guest.html
- http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/27/boxoffice.ap/index.html
- http://www.everything-outkast.com/Outkast-Ms-Jackson.html