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UK
/slˈɪpstɹiːm/
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NOUN
- the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
How To Use slipstream In A Sentence
- We talk about why the new generation slipstream is not the fusion of literary fiction and SF/F. Fri 1200 Remembering Robert Anton WILSON Archive 2007-08-01
- Riding in the slipstream of another competitor is not allowed.
- The end of the road had come for the SAP, which rumbled and shook violently, punctured wing panels beginning to peel away in the slipstream.
- Thinly disguised supercars clothed in bodies which have a passing resemblance to cars on sale in America race round, trading paint and slipstreaming for 500 miles.
- In the slipstream of the United States, Germany grew to become the second biggest export nation in the world.
- Approaching the end of the channel, we found that the German couple who had pushed on ahead had encountered a more vigorous current and were clinging to the reef, their bodies extended like banners in the slipstream.
- His lace-necked trainbearer tripped behind in his slipstream. Times, Sunday Times
- What I think we have here, at the heart of slipstream, is a folding through of the strange and the mundane, a radical interpenetration (far more radical than that of intrusion fantasy), one that leads to the deep instability and uncertainty of an infused realm, offered as an estranged postmodern view of the world -- infusion as confusion. Archive 2008-08-01
- We inched out the door, the wind clawing at my legs as they emerged into the slipstream - and then it happened.
- If you are riding down a straightaway at speed with somebody closing in on you, you can literally feel a rearward tug as they move into your slipstream.