cred

Clippings.

• IPA^(key): /kɹɛd/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛd

cred (countable and uncountable, plural creds)

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.

   • 2002 November, Popular Science, volume 261, number 5, 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) A credential.
   • 1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet):

     DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?

3. (science fiction, slang) A credit (currency unit).
   • 2021, Michael Carroll, Laurel Sills, Matthew Smith, Judge Dredd Year Three:

     And you're getting well paid, of course, but that's nothing to them, is it? They could double your salary, Gertler—pay you two million creds a year —and it'd still be peanuts to these people […]

• street cred

• bona fides

• CDRE, CDer, cedr-, rec'd

• credu

From Latin crēdō. Compare Romanian crede, cred.

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

1. to believe

• pistipsescu (more common)

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

• cre (kwe1)

From clipping of English credit.

cred

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, university slang) credit

   唔夠cred畢業／唔够cred毕业 [Cantonese]  ―  m⁴ gau³ kwet¹ bat¹ jip⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  not enough credits for graduation

Akin to Italian credere, from Latin.

cred

1. to believe

cred (verbal noun credjal, past participle credjit)

1. Alternative form of creid

• IPA^(key): /ˈkred/
• Rhymes: -ed

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/
• Rhymes: -eːd

cred f (plural credau)

1. belief, creed

cred (literary)

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