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street credit 

An arbitrary unit of non-physical currency (cred) commonly used in low socio-economic areas all around Australia - cumulative of the sum of all your actions within a community - at time of writing 1 cred is equal to 42 Australian cents and is subject to inflation. Activities that earn you creds range from stealing a plant from an old lady's garden (2 creds) to torching a school bus (4.5 creds, +0.5 for every student on board). These can be traded in at arcades for novelty items at the kiosk, eg. stickers, rub-on tattoos, giants combs and bootleg versions of popular Marvel characters such as Robot-Suit and Agent Spy.
Dazza: "Oi cuz, fukken - I just earned six creds (street credit) fukken up some old bat's garden. You wanna go buy sum stikers?"

Mazza: "Oi yeah, fukken oath mate. Fukken, and one of them giant fukken combs ey buz?"
Dazza: "Took the words strait outta me fukken mouth cuz. 'Aight, lets fukken have go then ay? Maccas run on the way home?"
Mazza: "Fukken, does an emu fuck budgies? Fukken oath!"

street credit 

(adjective) A way of life; a self-quality that one strives to achieve in a life based around improving one's swag. One can gain street credit in many ways, including, but not limited to, continuing to acquire freshness, looking fly, givin props, constantly hustlin, not sellin-out, and of course, by makin hit records
That guy Ryan gets so many girls and keeps makin hit albums that his street credit be huge!
street credit by Young Vinny July 7, 2009

street credit 

A "quality" that many people rely on when they have nothing else going for them.
"I have no real purpose in life so I will attack someone in an attempt to boost mah street credit rep!"

street credible

Adj. Possessing or displaying a high level of street (i.e., ghetto) credibility. Authentically urban.
Kevin: Did you see Robin's new iced-out spinners?
David: Yeah, she is so street credible.

street credibility 

Wörtlich "Straßenglaubwürdigkeit", meint, dass jemand mit einer hohen "street credibility" (abgekürzt "street cred") nicht in einer wohlbehaltenen geschützten reichen Umgebung aufgewachsen ist, sondern "von der Straße kommt", also aus der Unterschicht, Arbeiterklasse in ärmeren Gebieten mit erhöhter Kriminalität, dabei auch selbst oftmals kleinkriminell. Dagegen eine niedrige oder keine "street cred" gilt für Kinder reicherer Eltern des Bürgertums, gute Schulbildung, z.T. Privatschulen.
Eminem hat eine Menge street credibility.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026