Meanings
plural baby mamas · alternative baby-mama · alternative babymama · alternative baby mamma · alternative baby-mamma · alternative babymamma · alternative baby momma · alternative baby-momma · alternative babymomma
- USderogatorypossiblyslangThe mother of a child in common, particularly unmarried.
She's not his girlfriend now, but she's one of his baby mamas.
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Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128For men who must deal with these situations and others like them, the result is what has now been deemed as "baby-mama drama."
2008, Ebony Vol. 63, No. 8, Sidestepping Baby Mama Drama - Jun 2008, page 154Synonyms: babymother
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe mother of a child in common, particularly unmarried.
Origin
- Jamaican Creolebaby-mother“pregnant woman”
- Englishbaby mama
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.
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