chromey

English

Etymology

From chrome +‎ -y.

Adjective

chromey (comparative more chromey, superlative most chromey)

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.