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slip⋅stream

  [slip-streem]
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–noun Also, slip stream.
1. Aeronautics. the airstream pushed back by a revolving aircraft propeller. Compare backwash (def. 2), wash (def. 31).
2. the airstream generating reduced air pressure and forward suction directly behind a rapidly moving vehicle.
–verb (used without object)
3. to ride in the slipstream of a fast-moving vehicle.
Origin:
1910–15; slip 1 + stream
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slip·stream   (slĭp'strēm')   
n.  

  1. The turbulent flow of air driven backward by the propeller or propellers of an aircraft. Also called race2.

  2. The area of reduced pressure or forward suction produced by and immediately behind a fast-moving object as it moves through air or water.

intr.v.   slip·streamed, slip·stream·ing, slip·streams
To drive or cycle in the slipstream of a vehicle ahead.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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