Crossword clues for legit
legit
- For real, for short
- The real McCoy
- Lawful, informally
- Conforming to the rules
- Perfectly OK
- Aboveboard, slangily
- Reputable, informally
- Not shady
- Lawful, slangily
- Kind of theater, for short
- Go by foot
- Within permitted bounds
- Perfectly permissible
- Perfectly lawful
- Pass on the cab, say
- On the level, for short
- Not sketchy
- Not likely to cause suspicion
- Not crooked, like a business
- Not a scam
- Living theater, familiarly
- Live theater, for short
- Like a manager on the up-and-up
- Like a fair and official contract, for short
- In accordance with the law (abbr)
- Honest (abbr)
- Bona fide, informally
- Authentic, so to speak
- Authentic, informally
- Allowed, for short
- Allowable, for short
- Kosher, so to speak
- On the up and up, slangily
- On the up-and-up, so to speak
- Okay
- Absolutely fair
- Walk, slangily
- Go by foot, slangily
- On the level, informally
- O.K.
- Aboveboard, so to speak
- Run
- For real, in slang
- Go on foot, so to speak
- Not bogus
- On the square
- Not under the counter
- Not phony
- Not unlawful
- Not bootleg
- Go on shanks' mare
- Lawful, for short
- Slangily licit
- Authorised escape?
- Conforming to the law
- Right to run away?
- Bolt conforming to a certain standard
- It’s OK to run away
- Bona fide, slangily
- Within the law, slangily
- Allowed by law
- Hurry up
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
colloquial shortening of legitimate, 1897, originally in theater, in reference to legitimate drama, that which has literary merit (Shakespeare, etc.).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context informal English) legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules 2 (context by extension English) genuine, actual, literal or honest, of a thing or person 3 (context slang English) cool by virtue of being genuine (considered to be the real deal)
Wikipedia
Legit is a slang abbreviation of legitimate. It may also refer to:
- Legit (professional wrestling)
- Legit (2006 TV series), in Scotland
- Legit (2013 TV series), created by comedian Jim Jefferies
- Legit Ballin', a record label
- B-Legit, an American rapper
- Too Legit to Quit, an MC Hammer album
- Too Legit for the Pit: Hardcore Takes the Rap, an album of cover versions of hiphop songs
Legit was a Scottish sitcom produced by The Comedy Unit, written by Robert Florence (of videoGaiden) and Iain Connell and broadcast on BBC One Scotland. The pilot episode aired on 16 September 2006 to much critical acclaim and positive reviews. The first series started on 7 September 2007 with the pilot episode being aired first and then the remaining episodes. The show was shown every Friday night at 9:30pm. In May 2008, the BBC made the decision not to renew the show for a second series. Instead Dear Green Place was renewed.
Legit is an American comedy television series created by Peter O'Fallon and Jim Jefferies. The series premiered on January 17, 2013, on the American cable television network FX and ended on May 14, 2014, on FX's sister channel FXX. Jefferies, O'Fallon, Rick Cleveland, and Lisa Blum are the show's executive producers.
On March 28, 2013, Legit was renewed for a second season by FX and moved to FXX. On May 14, 2014, it was announced that Legit was cancelled and would not return to FXX for a third season.
Usage examples of "legit".
Still, if my automatic writing really is legit, and it is not just my own mind writing these things, than I have no doubt that it is Uncle Duck coming through.
Eschaton traditionally commandeers Courts 6-9, the really nice East Courts, unless there's legit tennis going on.
Just one lousy rat could give the whole Club a legit raison, an explicable reason for congregating underground all of them are a bit uneasy about liking to congregate underground for no good or clear reason.
You know, is it legit as a Dollmaker victim or is some other wacko jerking us off?
But Tom never intended her to serve any legit branch of government.
As you can imagine, sitting on top of a potential nova is something that drives the Legits crazy.
If this is legit, we're flying out on the QT and reporting in from Jersey.
He could have gone into any kind of legit work and made a mint, but he had these quirks: One, he hated his old man, who was a retired FBI agent, and two, the guy he most wanted to be like was some flower-power drug guru from the sixties, a guy named Owsley, who came out of the psychedelic movement.
It was amusing to see the characteristics of Sanda in my body, as it had tickled me to see some legit switchers in similar circumstances.
Lembeck said the only queer service he knew of was ritzy, hush-hush and run by a man named Felix Gordean, a legit talent agent with an office on the Strip and a suite at the Chateau Marmont.