streamer

 
Pronunciation: /ˈstriːmə/

noun

  • 1a long, narrow strip of material used as a decoration or symbol: plastic party streamers figurative a streamer of smoke
  • [usually as modifier] a banner headline in a newspaper: a streamer head in the student paper
  • [usually as modifier] Fishing a fly with feathers attached: a streamer fly
  • Astronomy an elongated mass of luminous matter, e.g. in aurorae or the sun’s corona: above active sunspot regions coronal streamers may travel 140 million km into space