street credibilityn.
/ˌstriːt ˌkrɛdᵻˈbɪlᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌstrit ˌkrɛdəˈbɪlᵻdi/ colloquial.
Acceptability among, or popularity with, ordinary people, especially fashionable young urban people; the appearance or fact of possessing such a quality.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > credibility > [noun] > in popular culture
street credibility1977
street cred1982
1977 Los Angeles Times 21 Feb. vi. 1/4 Was the proper Reddy trying to get Street Credibility?
1979 Sounds 1 Dec. 33/1 Levine has real street credibility (not like some wimp who wears Mary Quant's latest range, went to public school, [etc.].
1980 Washington Post 24 Nov. b11/2 Springsteen's street credibility is the core of his effectiveness. His striking working-class imagery is within everyone's experience, or at least within their reach.
1995 Foresight (Sun Alliance) Winter 30/1 In Germany and Austria, children happily don a pair of indoor sandals with no loss of street credibility but a British teenager will run a mile from a pair of slippers.
2004 M. M. Lewis Scars of Soul ii. ix. 152 It was advantageous to the United Nations to host an event like this because it gave them street credibility.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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