legit
- legitimate.
- (of a singing voice) trained in a classical or operatic tradition.
- having such a singing voice.
- being a singer with such a voice.
- the legitimate theater or stage.
Origin of legit
Related Words for legit
authorized, canonical, constitutional, due, enforced, established, innocent, judicial, jurisprudent, just, justifiable, kosher, legal, legitimate, licit, mandated, official, ordained, ordered, permissibleExamples from the Web for legit
Contemporary Examples of legit
They could've been, you know, legit officers who wasn't down with whatever's going on.
But Hillstomp is the real deal, as legit as anything you will find nowadays down on the bayou.
And the chalkboards in the film with the field equations are legit.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down ‘Interstellar’: Black Holes, Time Dilations, and Massive WavesMarlow Stern
November 11, 2014
In one of my homicides, I had one wonderful witness, a legit Good Samaritan with 20-20 vision and photographic memory.
They dropped an AK-47 next to his dead body to make it look like “a legit shoot.”
Historical Examples of legit
It isn't usual, you know, to graduate from a girlie show into the legit.
The Business of LifeRobert W. Chambers
Bene, Gubernator legit hos journales, et nunc odit Græcum et Latinum.
Legit tunc cum Joanne Voite, in angulum abdtius, libellos Lutheri.
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (Volume 1)J. H. Merle D'Aubign
They could use the publicity, too—someone to go and drill down on which clinics are legit and which ones are clip-joints.
MakersCory Doctorow
What Wolfville hankers for is tests, tests about the legit'macy of which thar's no openin' for dispoote.
Faro Nell and Her FriendsAlfred Henry Lewis
legit
- short for legitimate
- legitimate or professionally respectable drama
Word Origin and History for legit
colloquial shortening of legitimate, 1897, originally in theater, in reference to legitimate drama, that which has literary merit (Shakespeare, etc.).