English-French translations for slipstream

• sillage
  Nous sommes restés dans le sillage des États-Unis. We have been left in the slipstream of the United States.
  Il est tout à fait inopportun de glisser ces pouvoirs considérables dans le sillage d'une mesure de libéralisation. Slipping through these huge powers in the slipstream of a liberalisation measure is quite inappropriate.

Definition of slipstream

• The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence
• A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries
• To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator
• To incorporate additional software into an existing installer

Examples

• Although dangerous, over-the-road truck drivers sometimes slipstream with each other to save fuel.

Related words

• slipshod
• slipslop
• slipshot