Other forms: slipstreams
The slipstream is the sheltered air just behind a moving rider. Sit in the slipstream, drop into his slipstream, use the slipstream.
Riding in it can cut the effort by something like a third, which is why road racing is a team sport disguised as an individual one. Motor racing calls the same thing the tow or the draft. Note the compound of slip and stream.
1nounslipstreamThe sheltered air just behind a moving vehicle or rider.
“The cyclist tucked in close behind the truck to ride in its slipstream.”
slipstream is a flow of air.
Slip plus stream. The air slips past and closes behind, leaving a stream of low pressure.
slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by Bruce Sterling in 1989.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA