chromey

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English

Etymology

From chrome +‎ -y.

Adjective

chromey (comparative more chromey, superlative most chromey)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of chrome.
    • 1977, Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr., Entertaining Strangers, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 110:
      As I drove away, I could see in my rearview mirror that he hardly had to wait a minute: a chromey old convertible, loaded with tumultuous blacks, stopped and engulfed him.
    • 1984, Richard Langworth, “Introduction and acknowledgements”, in The Mustangs, 1964-1973: A Collector’s Guide, Motor Racing Publications Ltd, published 1988, →ISBN, page 6:
      Toward the late ’Fifties we began to appreciate and snap up the few remaining Grand Classics: Duesenbergs, Stutzes, Marmons and multi-cylindered Cadillacs/Packards/Lincolns, and in the early ’Seventies the objects that moved us were duotoned and chromey, expressions of that period of unbridled optimism colloquially known as the Fabulous ’Fifties.
    • 1997, David Bry, “Scarface, ‘The Untouchable’”, in Vibe, page 154:
      Although a chromey sheen of overproduction mars “Smile”—a posthumous Tupac duet—Scarface delivers a genuinely moving requiem for his departed friend.
    • 2015 August, Classic Bike Guide, number 292, page 105:
      The second is to find the points, usually hidden behind a chromey cover, retained by three, or more commonly two, screws.
    • 2018 January 10, Graham Hope, “Ford Edge”, in Auto Express, number 1,506, page 54:
      There’s a chromey brashness about it that those of us who prefer to fly under the radar find a tad unappealing.