slipstream

POS

Noun, Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

slip=stream

top

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun slipstream has 1 sense

slipstream(n = noun.phenomenon) airstream, backwash, race, wash - the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller; Array

is a kind of flow

top

OXFORD DICTIONARY

slipstream, n. & v.
--n.
1 a current of air or water driven back by a revolving propeller or a moving vehicle.
2 an assisting force regarded as drawing something along with or behind something else.
--v.tr.
1 follow closely behind (another vehicle).
2 pass after travelling in another's slipstream.

For further exploring for "slipstream" in Webster Dictionary Online