Usually means: Airflow following a moving object.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. slipstream: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. slipstream: Merriam-Webster
  3. slipstream: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. slipstream: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. slipstream: Collins English Dictionary
  6. slipstream: Vocabulary.com
  7. Slipstream, slipstream: Wordnik
  8. slipstream: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. slipstream: Wiktionary
  10. slipstream: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. slipstream: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. slipstream: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. slipstream: Dictionary.com
  14. Slipstream (Bonnie Raitt album), Slipstream (Jethro Tull), Slipstream (Sherbet album), Slipstream (band), Slipstream (comics), Slipstream (computer science), Slipstream (computing), Slipstream (disambiguation), Slipstream (genre), Slipstream (radio drama), Slipstream (science fiction), Slipstream (sculpture), Slipstream (unfinished film), Slipstream (video), Slipstream: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. slipstream: Rhymezone
  16. slipstream: FreeDictionary.org
  17. slipstream: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. slipstream: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slipstream: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slipstream: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slipstream: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Slipstream: Sports Definitions

(Note: See slipstreamed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
noun:  (figurative, by extension) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.
noun:  The relative wind experienced as a result of movement through air.
noun:  (aviation) The airflow over a propeller-driven aircraft generated by the motion of its propeller(s).
noun:  (uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
verb:  To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
verb:  (computing, transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.

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