chrome n.
1. (US black) a gun [the chrome finish applied to many models of pistol/revolver].
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Something Good’ 🎵 Ya pulled ya little chrome but these fools got gats. | |
| ‘Fuck Wit Dre Day’ 🎵 Got my chrome to the side of his White Sox hat. | |
| ‘Stray Rounds’ Wire ser. 2 ep. 9 [TV script] Anything that fired a bullet out on that corner has got to disappear [...] Drive all that chrome over to the harbour. | |
 | ‘Break the Chain’ 🎵 Like a killer with the chrome when I’m spittin out the poem. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Stuck in the Mud’ 🎵 I’ll touch him with a .40 chrome. |
2. (US black) loose change, esp. dimes, quarters and half-dollars [the silvery colour].
| Six Out Seven (1994) 283: Here my last two dollars an some chrome. Score yourself somethin to eat. |
3. (US black) an automobile (presumably heavily customized).
| ‘Look at Me’ 🎵 Fuck the laws undercovers wanna see me stopped / Tap my phone follow my chrome. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
1. a bald head.
| Dly Jrnl (Fergus Falls, MN) 18 Feb. 4/6: The beard judging was relatively serious, compared to the ‘chrome dome’ division. | |
| It (1987) 486: Bill Denbrough went for the chrome dome look. | |
| www.hairboutique.com Apr. 🌐 Patrick Stewart [...] was devastated when he lost all of his hair suddenly at the tender age of 19. In interviews about his chrome dome, Stewart has revealed that his hair fell out suddenly and completely in a 6 months period. | |
| www.scalzi.com [blog] Chrome Dome. [...] the balder you get, the shorter your hair needs to be in order to have it look good. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sucked In 89: Jason spotted the journalists’s chrome dome. |
2. a bald-headed person.
| L.A. Times 28 Sept. 2/1: Peter Matyas — known to his fellow workers [...] as Chrome-Dome Matyas. | |
| in DARE. | |
| Greenville News (CA) 19 May 5/4: How many times have you had to answer to ‘Baldy’ [...] ‘Onion-Head,’ ‘Chrome-Dome’ or ‘Slick?’. | |
| N.Y. Post 26 Dec. 3: MacLeod – ‘Lots of women think chrome domes are irresistible. We all think Gavin is’ [HDAS]. | |
| (con. Vietnam War) Everything We Had 62: Good old Chrome Dome. I named her that because she was bald on top of the head. | |
| Times (Munster IN) 2 Aug. 19/1: We would tease him at times and refer to him as ‘Chrome Dome’ because of his balding features. | |
| www.haircutstory.net Dec. 🌐 Finally, getting rid of this nasty hair and becoming the chrome dome I know and love. |
(US gay) dressed up in one’s best or new clothes.
| (ref. to late 1950s) Queens’ Vernacular 46: chrome-plated (late ’50s) dressed up in new or costly attire. |
In phrases
(US black) to possess an automobile that is fitted with chrome rims on the wheels.
| Westsiders 261: I’m over here, sittin’ on some chrome. |