street credibility

noun

1. street cred.

street credibility

noun

1. a convincing command or display of the style, fashions, knowledge, etc, associated with urban counterculture Often shortened tostreet cred

Derived Forms

• ˌstreet-ˈcredible, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of street credibility¹

First recorded in 1975–80

Example Sentences

These are the people who have street credibility and can educate folks enough so that they want the vaccine.

From Washington Post

They kept using my name to identify where this thing was, to give it street credibility.

From The Daily Beast

This did nothing to bolster Fayyad's already shaky street credibility.

From The Daily Beast