0 a 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:
I tried to get street cred with the baseball cap, but everyone advisers me not to do that again.
I use the word "experience"advisedly, because there are many areas of modern life in which the young alone have any serious"street cred".
I meet many people who have street cred in their communities.
Above all, the education message should be delivered by people with street cred—not by men in suits—and ideally by recovered addicts.
In a phrase they would recognise, it gives them "street cred" among their peers.
If money is short, it appears that extra emphasis is put into keeping up appearances—street cred.
The worrying aspect is the "demo-ism"—the wish to take direct action to establish a form of street cred.
One of the acid tests of the new deals is whether they have street cred.
