• Cred

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    • Rhymes: -É›d

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    cred

    (plural creds)
    1. (urban, slang) 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.
      • 2002, Popular Science (volume 261, number 5, November 2002, page 48)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.
    2. (computing, informal, usually in the plural) credential1998, "Lou Langholtz", DCE programming: using login creds to auth server? (on newsgroup comp.soft-sys.dce)

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