streamliner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of streamliner
First recorded in 1930–35; streamline + -er 1
Example Sentences
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The near 700,000 Black folk who arrived in L.A. between 1940 and 1970, who locomoted the City of Los Angeles streamliner or rode a grumbling Greyhound or braved the crucible of driving.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
It utilizes the same aerodynamic streamliner design as the Ioniq 6 streamliner that the company just introduced last week, which allows for more efficient performance.
From The Verge ● Jul. 17, 2022
Schulz regularly went 300 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats in his MacKichan/Schulz streamliner.
From Washington Times ● May 12, 2016
Then, to their horror, they discovered that the duck-tailed streamliner had no back platform.
From Time Magazine Archive
Supplying money-making equipment to railroads is an old story to the Budd Co., which sold the first stainless steel streamliner, the Pioneer Zephyr, to the Burlington in 1934.
From Time Magazine Archive
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