streamer

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
streamer/ˈstriːmə(r)/

▶noun

• 1 a long, narrow strip of material used as a decoration or flag.

• 2 a banner headline in a newspaper.

• 3 Fishing a fly with feathers attached.

• 4 Astronomy an elongated mass of luminous matter, e.g. in an aurora.

• 5 (also tape streamer) Computing a device for writing data very quickly on to magnetic tape.