no shame in my game en · X
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Chosen for the rhyme.
Meanings
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(slang) Implying that one has nothing to be embarrassed about or ashamed of in one's current activity or endeavor.
Secondly, mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of. There is no shame in my game.
1999, Fred Goodwin, Lichtenstein Creative Media, Intelligence, page 21:'Cause I don' have no shame in my game. At all.
1995, Patricia Cukor Avila, The Evolution of AAVE in a Rural Texas Community - An Ethnolinguistic Study, page 108:I hung out at Biff's, like a speakeasy, and there was no shame in my game.
1988, Thomas Henderson, Out of Control, page 196:She sucked her thumb up until a few months before her twenty-first birthday, "no shame in my game."
1997, G. Cajetan Luna, Youths Living with HIV - Self-evident Truths, page 134:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| there's no shame in my game | alternative | lexicographic | |
| ain't no shame in my game | alternative | lexicographic |