cred
noun/kɹɛd/
Etymology Clippings.
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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:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal, Plural normally A credential.
- DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet):
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction Slang 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:
- Derived terms
- street cred
- Related terms
- bona fides