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slipstreamy

slipstreamy adjective: resembling a slipstream.

Adjective

slipstreamy (comparative more slipstreamy, superlative most slipstreamy)

  1. Resembling a slipstream.
    • Right after Mom left us, she asked me to write her letters. Her voice crackling over the phone, she asked me to write down "all the slipstreamy thoughts from the pocket of my soul" and send them to her.2012, Melanie Schnell, While the Sun Is Above Us, Calgary, A.B.: Freehand Books, →ISBN, page 21
  2. Resembling slipstream fiction ("a genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries").
    • The other zine, run by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link, radiates a determinedly "postmodern," slipstreamy vibe. Two poles of the fantasy spectrum, right?2007 July, Paul Di Filippo, “On Books”, in Asimov's Science Fiction, volume 31, number 27, Norwalk, C.T.: Dell Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 137

Synonyms of slipstreamy

  • slipstreamish

Forms of slipstreamy

comparativemore slipstreamy
superlativemost slipstreamy

Origin of slipstreamy

From slipstream + -y.

Questions about slipstreamy

What does slipstreamy mean?
Slipstreamy means resembling a slipstream.
What part of speech is slipstreamy?
Slipstreamy is an adjective.

Words near slipstreamy in the dictionary

  1. slipstreamed
  2. slipstreamer
  3. slipstreamers
  4. slipstreaming
  5. slipstreams
  6. slipstreamy
  7. slipstring
  8. slipstrings
  9. slipt
  10. slipthrift
  11. slipthrifts

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