English Dictionary

slipstream

noun

The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence. / (figuratively, by extension) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.

The race car driver used the slipstream to gain an advantage over his competitors.

意味（1）

The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.

Monza was the seventh race in a row at which Leclerc had out-qualified Vettel. There were extenuating circumstances this time - Vettel did not have a slipstream on his first lap and the farcical end to qualifying prevented him doing another - but a clear pattern is emerging.

意味（2）

(figuratively, by extension) A generated advantage which makes forward movement easier.

The Republicans, who in fact quintessentially represent what I understand to be private and special interests of a narrow economic kind, have nevertheless managed, flying in the slipstream of Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric, to look like the true guardians of the nation’s public interest.

意味（3）

(uncountable, fiction) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.

Coordinate term: New Weird