streamliner

English
B&O Royal Blue streamliner

Etymology

streamline +‎ -er

Noun

streamliner (plural streamliners)

  1. Something with a streamlined design, especially railroad locomotives and passenger equipment.
    • 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 104:
      Californians brook no argument on the subject: for them the Southern Pacific's Coast Daylight was the world's most beautiful streamliner - a band of red, orange, and black drawn by appropriately styled Lima GS 4-8-4's.

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