street crednoun [ U ]
uk/ˈstriːt ˌkred/us/ˈstriːt ˌkred/also street credibility UKa quality that makes you likely to be accepted by ordinary young people who live in towns and cities because you have the same fashions, styles, interests, culture, or opinions:
Many celebrities develop a working class accent to increase their street credibility.
He was the first person to really bring street cred to white rap.
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Modern & fashionable
- be (all) the rage idiom
- be having a moment idiom
- be the last word in sth idiom
- be the new sth idiom
- futuristic
- get with the programme idiom
- happening
- high-tech
- hip
- hipster
- minute 1
- programme
- sharp
- smart
- space-age
- state-of-the-art
- swinger
- swinging
- switched on
- à la mode
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street-credible
adjective usuk/ˈstriːtˌkred.ɪ.bl̩/