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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; slip¹ + stream

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n.

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

slipstream
noun
the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

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