street cred

1. 1.

   credibility among young fashionable urban individuals

   Synonymsstreet credibilitycred

   Broadercredibility

Questions about street cred

What does street cred mean?

street cred means "credibility among young fashionable urban individuals".

What is another word for street cred?

Close synonyms include street credibility, cred. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is street cred a common word?

street cred is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.