Chrome Dome Meaning

(US, military) A haircut in which the hair is clipped extremely close to the scalp.

Example: 1994 July 26, Mike Freeman, "Pro Football: To Put It Baldly, Brooks Is a Leader," New York Times (retrieved 16 Oct 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.
2004 July 19, Carolina A. Miranda, "Hair To The Chief!," 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 9780765326652, p. 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.
1957 Aug. 5, Carolina A. Miranda, "Armed Forces: Scalped," 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.

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