Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Credibility; authenticity.
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- noun urban, slang
Credibility . - noun computing, informal, usually plural
credential
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun credibility among young fashionable urban individuals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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# Mount storage service as a drive new-psdrive - psprovider $ProviderName - root $ServiceUrl - name $DriveName - cred $cred - scope global
Planet Geospatial 2009
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PS WSMan: \ > New-PSSession weiwu-lh64. ntdev.corp.microsoft.com - cred $cred - Authentication credssp
MSDN Blogs 2009
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The iPad 2's got the name cred, a terrifically intuitive user interface, and FaceTime for weekly check-ins.
Gizmodo Brian Barrett 2011
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Meanwhile, poor Dr. Dawg, in order to keep socialist street cred, is featuring dead Gaza babies wrapped in Hezbollah flags.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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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.
Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Social Network - Much Ado about Nothing Nancy Doyle Palmer 2010
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Then again, no journalism cred is really required to cover the White House.
Blockheads 2009
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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.
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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.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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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.
Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Social Network - Much Ado about Nothing Nancy Doyle Palmer 2010
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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.
Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Social Network - Much Ado about Nothing Nancy Doyle Palmer 2010
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