gulf stream

1. 1.

   a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean

   Broaderocean current

Questions about gulf stream

What does gulf stream mean?

gulf stream means "a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean".

Is gulf stream a common word?

gulf stream is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.