![]() It appears to be a Black English shortening or pronunciation of babe or baby as terms of endearment, though a popular folk etymology spread in the early 2010s claiming bae is a backronym for before anyone else.īae skyrocketed in 2012 when tweeter posted an image of herself pretending to be asleep, captioned “Females Be Like ‘Bae Caught Me Slipping’,” imagining one’s bae fondly taking a picture of them sleeping. ![]() Bae is first recorded in the early 2000s, appearing in hip-hop lyrics around 2005 before spreading into mainstream slang in the 2010s.
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