Meaning of Slipstream | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
   countable, uncountable
2. A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
   broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
   countable, uncountable
4. The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
   countable, uncountable
5. A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.”

“The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan's rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation's public interest.”

“Slipstream is not simply a mixture of fantasy and realism, but something which lies between or even beyond the two.”

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