Etymology

slipstream

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Today it means: The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence. Full definition →

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The story

Compound of slip + stream. Fiction sense coined by cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling in 1989.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.