Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
SLIPSTREAM
slipstream, airstream, race, backwash, wash
(noun) the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
slipstream (countable and uncountable, plural slipstreams)
The low-pressure zone immediately following a rapidly moving object, caused by turbulence.
(uncountable) A genre of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries.
Verb
slipstream (third-person singular simple present slipstreams, present participle slipstreaming, simple past and past participle slipstreamed)
To take advantage of the suction produced by a slipstream by travelling immediately behind the slipstream generator.
(computing, transitive) To incorporate additional software (such as patches) into an existing installer.
Anagrams
• palmisters
Source: Wiktionary
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SINGSONG
(verb) move as if accompanied by a singsong; “The porters singsonged the travellers’ luggage up the mountain”
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