The area behind a vehicle moving through something where there is not so much air resistance (if moving through air. This can be used to gain
speed before overtaking someone in a race.
Also if in space when your spaceship is in the slipstream of another it can't be detected by the other
ship'
s sensors (but this is only if you are in an episode of star trek).
Ooh ooh he'
s going to overtake him, he'
s gaining speed in the slipstream.
YES! he'
s done it and the crowd goes wild.