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creds

creds is the plural of cred.

Meaning of cred

Noun

cred (countable and uncountable, plural creds)

  1. (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.
  2. (informal, plural-normally) A credential.
    • DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet)
  3. (slang) A 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

Questions about creds

What is creds the plural of?
Creds is the plural of cred.

Words near creds in the dictionary

  1. credobaptists
  2. credoes
  3. credophile
  4. credophiles
  5. credos
  6. creds
  7. credulist
  8. credulities
  9. credulitiveness
  10. credulity
  11. credulosity

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