legit

adjective

1. legitimate.
2. (of a singing voice) trained in a classical or operatic tradition.
3. having such a singing voice.
4. being a singer with such a voice.

noun

5. the legitimate theater or stage.

adjective

1. short for legitimate

noun

2. legitimate or professionally respectable drama

colloquial shortening of legitimate, 1897, originally in theater, in reference to legitimate drama, that which has literary merit (Shakespeare, etc.).