Cred

//kɹɛd// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Credibility. uncountable

    "After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned."

  2. 2
    credibility among young fashionable urban individuals wordnet
  3. 3
    A credential. countable, informal, plural-normally, uncountable

    "DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?"

  4. 4
    A credit (currency unit). countable, slang, uncountable

    "And you're getting well paid, of course, but that's nothing to them, is it? They could double your salary, Gertler—pay you two million creds a year —and it'd still be peanuts to these people […]"

Example

More examples

"After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned."

Etymology

Clippings.

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