Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. urban, slang Credibility.
- n. computing, informal, usually plural credential
WordNet 3.0
- n. credibility among young fashionable urban individuals
Examples
“PS WSMan: \ > New-PSSession weiwu-lh64. ntdev.corp.microsoft.com - cred $cred - Authentication credssp”
“# Mount storage service as a drive new-psdrive - psprovider $ProviderName - root $ServiceUrl - name $DriveName - cred $cred - scope global”
“The iPad 2's got the name cred, a terrifically intuitive user interface, and FaceTime for weekly check-ins.”
“Then again, no journalism cred is really required to cover the White House.”
“Elsa and Clive (Sarah Polley and Adrien Brody respectively) happen to be a pair of rebellious scientists who gain cred and praise for their work with successfully splicing the DNA of various animals.”
“Shoutout to my alma mater here - what those of us from the other side of the Charles may lack in perfect board scores we make up in EQ - we can spot a maladjusted hostile loser/hater whose only cred is that he got into Harvard a mile away.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Social Network - Much Ado about Nothing
“Meanwhile, poor Dr. Dawg, in order to keep socialist street cred, is featuring dead Gaza babies wrapped in Hezbollah flags.”
“My anti-anti-Semitic street cred is intact: years of taking on Holocaust-deniers on Usenet, organizing against the Heritage Front in Ottawa, numerous posts on my own blog, an outright ban on anti-Semitic comments.”
“Dude, the nerd cred is good, but your friends have to get you drunker and even more laid.”
“But the group's tech cred is suspect, given that one of their e-cards features a picture of a circa-1997 Palm Pilot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cred’.
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Roots
act, aer, ambul, ami, amo, anim, ann, enn, arch, rcha, rchae, archi and 139 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Activated Phonemes
This list was generated by first taking a letter from the alphabet, or any of the initial cluster set of phonesthemes compiled by the ingenious Benjamin Shisler) and then sticking one of the suffix...
bing, ding, ging, jing, ling, ming, king, ping, ring, sing, ting, wing and 189 more...
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Choppers
Words that have been cut down from their original glory, ie. apocopes, but are still 'understandable' in the chopped form. eg. doc for doctor. Most of them are horribilisms, I know :-( Let's keep t...
doc, rep, van, bus, fridge, pub, flu, hon, santa, diff, blog, exam and 49 more...
Tweets
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