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chrome noun. Hacker slang for splashy program features that attract attention but do little or nothing to make the program more useful or more powerful. "Those little animations in Windows 95 are cool, but they're really just chrome."

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Computers - Programming and Software

Posted on November 13, 1996 at 7:02 PM
Updated on November 13, 1996 at 7:02 PM


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