cred

plural creds

1. uncountableCredibility.

   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.

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   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. countableinformalplural normallyuncountablecomputingA credential.

   DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?

   1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet)

3. countableslanguncountableliteratureA credit (currency unit).

   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 […]

   2021, Michael Carroll, Laurel Sills, Matthew Smith, Judge Dredd Year Three