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Meanings of slipstream in English

Spanish
estela

The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller.

estela
Usage of slipstream in English
1
Pyrobolts fired, kicking the ejection seat out of the squid's blazing slipstream.
The Hyperion Cantos
2
Audience habits are changing, and traditional broadcasters risk being left in the slipstream.
The Irish Times
3
Contingency plans never expected the loss of all our slipstream-enabled ships.
Envoy
4
It doesn't win many friends but they know everyone hides in their slipstream.
A journey: my political life
5
Australia is caught in the slipstream of this new era of diminishing returns.
Reuters
6
Better to follow in the slipstream of others than blaze your own trail.
The Irish Times
7
Nearby buildings blurred together in a slipstream of brick and stone.
The Naked God
8
The one that is being reborn in the slipstream of light.
Grand junction
9
The effort threw her from the slipstream into the relatively calm surrounding waters.
Artemis Fowl: the opal deception
10
The slipstream spun them beyond the railway sleepers, into a drift.
Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident
11
Victory rolls with the pilot's white silk scarf flapping jauntily in the slipstream.
The Naked God
12
Twenty percent of the speed of light creates a hell of a slipstream.
Hull zero three
13
Regional areas are often pulled along in the slipstream of improving capital city prices.
News.com.au
14
With 15 minutes to play Waterford were in Tipperary's slipstream.
The Irish Times
15
Louise turned towards the open window in order to catch some of the slipstream.
Kennedy's brain
16
The balcony was shielded from the slipstream by the bowed surface of ultraclear glass.
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Slipstream through the time
Slipstream across language varieties
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