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How to pronounce slipstream in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms airstream, backwash, race, wash
Type of flow

Examples of slipstream

slipstream
Of course, the slipstream of security fears hasn't lifted all charter operators.
From the time.com
Alison Carnwath, the pay committee chair, may well glide out in his slipstream.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
He gets into the slipstream once again but he's forced to stay there for now.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Coast along in their slipstream, just as they have often done with you in the past.
From the dailymail.co.uk
Even though Valentine's Day has passed, let its slipstream pull you along.
From the denverpost.com
And prams, lots of prams with lots of pink young women in their slipstream.
From the guardian.co.uk
The cars are just too good that slipstream alone will not get you past the guy in front.
From the sport.uk.msn.com
He played a fine ball into the slipstream of Noto whose rising drive was just too high.
From the borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
A journey in the spirit and slipstream of the man who invented history.
From the washingtonpost.com
More examples
  • The flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
  • A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to the moving object (in comparison to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving). ...
  • Slipstream is a 1967 film directed and written by Steven Spielberg and Roger Ernest that went unfinished.
  • Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has been changed and is windswept by storms of great ...
  • Slipstream is a 2007 American science fiction film starring, written, scored, and directed by Anthony Hopkins, which explores the premise of a man who is caught in a slipstream of time and remembers his own future. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
  • Slipstream (full title: Slipstream - The Best of British Jazz-Funk) is a 1981 compilation album released by Beggars Banquet Records. The title track is by British jazz fusion duo Morrissey-Mullen.
  • Slipstream were formed in 1994 after Mark Refoy left Spiritualized. The band consisted of Ian Anderson on guitar, Gary Lennon on bass, Steve Beswick on drums and occasional appearances from Jonny Mattock who had also stopped drumming for Spiritualized later that year. ...
  • Slipstream (Davis Cameron) is a fictional character in Marvel Comics universe. He is a superhero associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Salvador Larroca, he first appeared in X-Treme X-Men #6 (December 2001).
  • A slipstream processor is an architecture designed to reduce the length of a running program by removing the non-essential instructions. It is a form of speculative computing.