cred

Clipping of credibility and credential.

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛd/
• Rhymes: -ɛd

cred (countable and uncountable, plural creds)

1. (urban, 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.

   • 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) credential

   1998, "Lou Langholtz", DCE programming: using login creds to auth server? (on newsgroup comp.soft-sys.dce)

• street cred

• bona fides

• CDRE, CDer, cedr-, rec'd

• credu

From Latin crēdō. Compare Daco-Romanian crede, cred.

cred (third-person singular present indicative creadi/ creade, past participle cridzutã)

1. I believe.

• pistipsescu (more common)

• creadiri/ creadire, crideari/ crideare
• cridzut
• cridzui
• ncred/ ãncred

cred (verbal noun credjal, past participle credjit)

1. Alternative form of creid

• IPA^(key): [krɛd]

cred

1. first-person singular present indicative of crede

   Cred că ești Diavolul, copile.

   I believe that you are the Devil, child.

2. first-person singular present subjunctive of crede

   Nu pot să cred că fratele lui e atât de prost.

   I can't believe his brother is so stupid.

3. third-person plural present indicative of crede

   Ei nu cred că suntem toți copiii lui Dumnezeu.

   They don't believe that we are all the children of God.

• IPA^(key): /kreːd/

cred f (plural credau)

1. belief, creed

cred (literary)

1. inflection of credu:
   1. third-person singular present indicative and future
   2. second-person singular imperative