a current of air or water driven back by a revolving propeller or jet engine

an assisting force regarded as drawing something along behind something else

when the US economy booms, the rest of the world is pulled along in the slipstream

(especially in motor racing) follow closely behind another vehicle, travelling in its slipstream and awaiting an opportunity to overtake

he then slipstreamed and overtook me again

she had a rocky route through the rest of adolescence while I slipstreamed smoothly behind

I planned to slipstream him in the last lap