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STREAMLINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streamliner mean? 

STREAMLINER (noun)
  The noun STREAMLINER has 1 sense:

1. a streamlined trainplay

  Familiarity information: STREAMLINER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STREAMLINER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A streamlined train

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("streamliner" is a kind of...):

railroad train; train (public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive)

Derivation:

streamline (contour economically or efficiently)


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