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Word: Slipstream
Speech Type: Noun
ˈslɪpstriːm
a current of air or water driven back by a revolving propeller or jet engine.
Short Definition:current of air or water driven back by revolving propeller or jet engine
an assisting force regarded as drawing something along behind something else
Short Definition:assisting force regarded as drawing something along behind something else
Examples:- when the US economy booms, the rest of the world is pulled along in the slipstream
Word: Slipstream
Speech Type: Verb
ˈslɪpstriːm
(especially in motor racing) follow closely behind another vehicle, travelling in its slipstream and awaiting an opportunity to overtake
Short Definition:follow closely behind another vehicle
Examples:- he then slipstreamed and overtook me again
- she had a rocky route through the rest of adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind
- I planned to slipstream him in the last lap
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