Pipeline Slang
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A loose use of 'pipeline' to mean any multi-stage process where work moves step by step, even outside formal CI/CD or data-engineering contexts. It shows how infrastructure vocabulary leaks into broader work talk.
In plain English: Using 'pipeline' informally for any process with several stages.
Example: "The legal review pipeline slang has more retries than our actual deploy system."