chromie
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Clipping of chromosome + -ie.
Noun[edit]
chromie (plural chromies)
- (Internet slang) A chromosome.
- He's the homie with the extra chromie.
- 1997 November 13, Tamera Ragan, “tni stuff”, in bit.listserv.down-syn[1] (Usenet):
- I think the fairest statement as a whole about TRI's feelings on Dixie's comments (if we have to sterotype TRI) is that TRI has determined that there is valid concern about the metabolic cycles in DS, and that they indeed differ from the "chromosmally deficient crowd" - those with only 46 chromies ;) On that, you indeed will get a concensus. You will also find concensus in that Nutrivene-D is the best way that they know, right now, to address that extra chromie from a nutritional standpoint.
- 2017 March 21, @Elle_Montgomery, Twitter[2], archived from the original on 10 January 2024:
- Thank you for making me a better person! You rock your extra chromie, homie 🤘🏻💙 I love you s'much #NationalDownSyndromeDay
- 2020 February 27, u/BrooklynDoge, “is he talking to us wtf”, in Reddit[3], r/okbuddyretard, archived from the original on 10 January 2024:
- I got all the chromies 😎
- 2021 September 8, “Garret, who has Down Syndrome, bench pressed a school record 355 pounds”, in Reddit[4], r/nextfuckinglevel, archived from the original on 10 January 2024:
- Homie has a huge strength buff default because of his extra chromie.
- 2022 October 9, u/Fro_Yo_Joe, “Man with Down syndrome fired from Wendy's after 20 years”, in Reddit[5], r/news, archived from the original on 10 January 2024:
- Always be kind to our homies with extra chromies. Also that manager is a piece of trash.
Usage notes[edit]
- Almost exclusively paired with "extra", referring to Down syndrome.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
chromie (plural chromies)
- (slang) A part made of chrome, especially one installed on a car or motorcycle.
- 2014, Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, Kevin Moffett, The Silent History, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 79:
- One day the silents and me were all together, a rogue army, and then it was just me, again, riding around on my bike. Stealing chromies off cars just for something to steal. Trying to figure out why I always lost.
Further reading[edit]
- “chromie”, “extra chromie”, “homie with an extra chromie”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.