Definition of "cred"

cred

/kɹɛd/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural creds
1. (originally slang, uncountable) Credibility.
  Quotations
  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. (computing, informal, usually in the plural) A credential.
  Quotations
  DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?
  1998, Lou Langholtz, comp.soft-sys.dce (Usenet)
3. (science fiction, slang) A credit (currency unit).
  Quotations
  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