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cred en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kɹɛd/
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Etymology

Clippings.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Credibility.
    • 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.
    • Don't worry about losing geek cred here: In addition to its usual functions, the remote will be able to call up a customizable Command menu that executes any program or script you have the temerity to put in its configuration file. 2002 November, Popular Science, volume 261, number 5, page 48:
  2. (countable, informal, plural-normally, uncountable) A credential.
    • DCE programming: using login creds to auth server? 1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet):
  3. (countable, slang, uncountable) A credit (currency unit).
    • 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 […] 2021, Michael Carroll, Laurel Sills, Matthew Smith, Judge Dredd Year Three:

Forms

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Deriveds

street cred

Relateds

bona fides