cred

Etymology

Clipping of credibility and credential.

noun

  1. (originally slang, 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. (computing, informal, usually in the plural) credential
    DCE programming: using login creds to auth server? 1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet)

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