Definitions

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  • noun Something with a streamlined design, especially railroad locomotives and passenger equipment.

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  • noun a streamlined train

Etymologies

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streamline +‎ -er

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Examples

  • The rescue of the four-year-old boy came about 21 hours after a southbound bullet train, traveling between the cities of Hangzhou and Wenzhou, was disabled by a lighting strike on a bridge and a second high-speed train bound for the city of Fuzhou from Beijing plowed into the stalled streamliner.

    Toddler Rescued from Deadly Chinese Train Wreck 2011

  • The rescue of the four-year-old boy came about 21 hours after a southbound bullet train, traveling between the cities of Hangzhou and Wenzhou, was disabled by a lighting strike on a bridge and a second high-speed train bound for the city of Fuzhou from Beijing plowed into the stalled streamliner.

    Toddler Rescued from Deadly Chinese Train Wreck 2011

  • When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls.

    Homestead 2009

  • The 35 meter high sculpture features two Audi cars – the legendary 1937 Auto Union streamliner as well as the just launched R8 V10 sports car suspended in the air, at either end of a dramatic ‘swoosh’ of tyre tracks, as if they are driving off into the sky.

    The Egg Chair Redesigned on the Occasion of the Chair’s Golden Anniversary 2009

  • They date to streamliner days when the freight lines still hauled passengers.

    When a Gulfstream V Just Won't Do, Try Riding Like a Rail Baron Barry Newman 2011

  • When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls.

    Homestead 2009

  • He came into office with a script, written by Republican governors in states such as Michigan, as a streamliner, reformer and privatizer.

    McDonnell's VDOT pots of gold Peter Galuszka 2010

  • McTigue, who was known as a government streamliner in New Zealand, has advised states such as Louisiana on cutting state functions.

    Connecting the dots on McDonnell's 'streamlining' panel 2010

  • Within a nanosecond of my reaching the other side, a high speed streamliner coming around a curve passed over those very same tracks at about 100 miles per hour.

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    The Volokh Conspiracy » Classic ScrappleFace: 2005

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