Slipstreamer

Quick meaning: Slipstreamer is a noun meaning Someone who follows a slipstream in a race.

Meaning

Someone who follows a slipstream in a race.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) Someone who goes with the flow; someone who follows with what others are doing.
2. (motor racing) A race in which the shape of the track causes extensive slipstreams to form behind each car.
3. (literature) Someone who writes slipstream fiction ("a genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries").

Example Sentences

He headed the leading group over the col, class riders every one, no wheel-suckers keeping the shade of the men doing the work. 'Never gets a tan', they say of the slipstreamers.

He had a special bond with my father, a bond that I was hard-pressed to understand, that involved doing stuff. The two of them skied and hiked and fly-fished. I did those things, too, but as a kind of slipstreamer, along for the ride.

[Robert ] Grosseteste in this sense was a slipstreamer. In his book about him, James McEvoy writes, 'Grosseteste's interest in natural questions was both genuine and deep. Part of his motivation for inquiry undoubtedly lay in his religious faith.

Even though horses are racing, they can spot things and that's why they put blinkers on so they can focus better. The best thing is to get your horse in the slipstream of the leader. It's a bit like cycling with its pacemakers and its slipstreamers.

Word Forms

• slipstreamers

Antonyms for slipstreamer

Common opposites include contrarian.

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