slipstream
- n the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
- Occasionally the trickle from the fringe to the heartland turns into a slipstream, and that seems to have happened with the heart-pulsing, mildly psychedelic drug called ecstasy.
- One, a little too close, was caught in the slipstream of a ship ahead.
- Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most of the western world as the lands he defended.