Home › Words › S › slipstreamerslipstreamerslipstreamer means someone who follows a slipstream in a race.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, slipstreamer ranks #16,749 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom slipstream + -er.nounSomeone who follows a slipstream in a race.e.g.“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.” — 1999, Graeme Fife, Tour De France: The History the Legend the Riders, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 42:Someone who goes with the flow; someone who follows with what others are doing.A race in which the shape of the track causes extensive slipstreams to form behind each car.Someone who writes slipstream fiction ("a genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries").Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).