baby mama

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baby mama

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Formed in African-American Vernacular English, attested since c. 1986 and popularized in the 2000s. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-mother (“pregnant woman”) (1966), alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.

noun baby mamas · baby-mama · babymama · baby mamma · baby-mamma · babymamma

US, derogatory, possibly, slang The mother of a child in common, particularly unmarried. She's not his girlfriend now, but she's one of his baby mamas.
Similar: babymother

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@misc{baby_mama_2026,
  title = {baby mama},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/baby%20mama},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}