chrome domeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

chrome dome (plural chrome domes)

1. (idiomatic, slang, sometimes humorous, sometimes derogatory) A bald head.
   • 1994 July 26, Mike Freeman, “Pro Football: To Put It Baldly, Brooks Is a Leader”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 October 2011:

     Linebacker Carlton Bailey shaved his head last year. . . . Soon, the bald head became the rage among the linebackers. Now, just about every Giants linebacker has a chrome dome.

2. (idiomatic, slang, sometimes humorous, sometimes derogatory) A person who is bald.
   • 2004 July 19, Carolina A. Miranda, “Hair To The Chief!”, in Time:

     Few Presidents have been bald. The last was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Luckily, he ran both times against another chrome dome, Adlai Stevenson.

   • 2010, F. Paul Wilson, SIMS‎, →ISBN, page 18:

     [W]here Patrick's hair lay thick and fair, Carter's was dark and thinning; his scalp gleamed through his comb-over. Soon he'd be a chrome dome.

3. (Internet slang, derogatory, humorous) A robot or artificial intelligence.
4. (US, military) A haircut in which the hair is clipped extremely close to the scalp.
   • 1957 August 5, Carolina A. Miranda, “Armed Forces: Scalped”, in Time:

     Airman Wheeler, a rebellious sort who did not like his job anyway, disregarded the orders of his superior, Lieut. William Shortt, to get his hair "clipped close from ear to crown, with only a fringe on top of the head"—a haircut variously known as a white sidewall, an Apache, a chrome-dome.

同意語

• (person who is bald): baldhead, baldy
• (haircut): buzzcut

参照

• “chrome dome”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.