legit
adjEtymology Clipping of legitimate or legitimately.
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Informal Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.
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Video games Informal Not using cheats.
- Did you see how fast that person was moving? I don't think they're legit.
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Broadly, Of a thing or person Genuine, actual, literal or honest.
- “The Bynar ship went missing on stardate 58934.9.” “Okay, so your intel is legit, but this still feels like a trick.” “No. I'm a changed computer. Just look at me. Do you see the blue light?” “The light is reassuring.”2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (8:50 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid):
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Slang Genuinely good and possessing all the required or expected qualities; the real deal.
- I checked out her portfolio. She's legit.
- If you neglect ex-planet Pluto's orbit, which is inclined 17 degrees from the plane of Earth's orbit, all the legit planet planes (as well as the equator of the Sun) lie within about 7 degrees of one another.2025, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Planets, Moons, and Cosmic Debris”, in Just Visiting This Planet, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century (Science / Astronomy), Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:
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Slang Cool by virtue of being genuine.