"chromey" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1977, Albert Ramsdell Gurney, Jr., Entertaining Strangers, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 110:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1984, Richard Langworth, “Introduction and acknowledgements”, in The Mustangs, 1964-1973: A Collector’s Guide, Motor Racing Publications Ltd, published 1988, →ISBN, page 6:",
          "text": "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.",
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        {
          "ref": "1997, David Bry, “Scarface, ‘The Untouchable’”, in Vibe, page 154:",
          "text": "Although a chromey sheen of overproduction mars “Smile”—a posthumous Tupac duet—Scarface delivers a genuinely moving requiem for his departed friend.",
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          "ref": "2015 August, Classic Bike Guide, number 292, page 105:",
          "text": "The second is to find the points, usually hidden behind a chromey cover, retained by three, or more commonly two, screws.",
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          "text": "There’s a chromey brashness about it that those of us who prefer to fly under the radar find a tad unappealing.",
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        "Resembling or characteristic of chrome."
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