pipeliner

English

Etymology

From pipeline +‎ -er.

Noun

pipeliner (plural pipeliners)

  1. One who works on oil pipelines.
    • 1991 September 22, A. C. Greene, “From Rags to Rather”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 27 November 2022:
      […] The other pipeliners would hoot and often somebody hollered, 'Look at them rags!' Hence the name."
    • 2009 March 27, Bill Friskics-Warren, “Dan Seals, 61, Pop Duo’s England Dan, Dies”, in The New York Times‎[2]:
      Danny Wayland Seals was born Feb. 8, 1948, in McCamey, Tex. His father, an amateur guitarist who performed with Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb, worked as a pipeliner in the oil fields of West Texas. Mr. Seals’s older brother, Jim Seals, played in fiddle championships as a child and later had several pop hits as part of the 1970s duo Seals & Crofts.
  2. One who works in the laying or maintenance of pipelines.
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