'slipstream' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the air current created by an object moving through air, usually a vehicle, that provides a small amount of thrust and can decrease the amount of energy needed to move through the air. For example, "The car was gaining speed from the slipstream of the truck in front of it."
Perhaps, in this day and age... most of us are, after all, more concerned with building our ramparts against "wind and tide and stars" than we are with vaulting them and lauching ourselves into the unknown, in his slipstream.
"Then people like me are in his slipstream picking up these heavy things that make biceps look great," she said.
This autumn Slipstream, an astonishing 70m-long, 77-tonne work by the acclaimed sculptor Richard Wilson, will be installed in Heathrow's Terminal 2. The sculpture is being constructed by a Hull company, CSI Fabrication, and Wilson has insisted that a plaque bearing the legend "made in Hull" is fixed to the work, which will be viewed by more than 20 million people a year.
The Blairites were intensely relaxed about all of this as long as the poor were themselves pulled along in the slipstream.
GCHQ emerged from Bletchley Park, and in the popular mind may still surf the slipstream of Enigma glory.
Cool Kids has sold more than a million copies in the US and achieved modest UK success last month, mainly by sounding enough like Taylor Swift to position the band in her slipstream.
The devices direct oncoming air around the trailer in such a way that it increases pressure in the area of the slipstream immediately behind the vehicle.
Ordinarily, this is a low-pressure area which has the effect of sucking the truck backwards, something that adds to the rig's fuel consumption.The low-pressure area in the slipstream of a moving object is exploited in some sports such as cycle racing, speed skating and motor racing.
And because there is less scope for specialisation than at big firms, jobs are more varied and employees can acquire skills quickly.Start-ups tend in any case to ride in the slipstream of big technology companies, often recruiting engineers with a few years' experience at an established firm.
But they also reduce the wing's slipstream, an area of low-pressure turbulence that pulls back on the wing, and hence reduce drag.
Catalan separatists would have tried to fall into Scotland's slipstream, using its vote to boost support for a movement that has grown rapidly; some polls show a majority of Catalans favour a split.But while the Scottish referendum was jointly proposed by the British and Scottish governments, Mr Mas is treading a more dangerous path.
