chute
verbEtymology Clipping of parachute.
1
Informal To parachute.
chute
nounUK /ʃuːt/ · US /ʃut/
Etymology From French chute.
1
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
- On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.1959 December 23, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866:
2
A waterfall or rapid.
3
A pen or passageway to constrain the movement of an animal, such as livestock being loaded for transport; the pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.
4
Hobbies, Horse racing, Horseracing, Horses, Lifestyle, Pets, Racing, Sports An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
- Derived terms
- ballute, bean chute, chute dogging, chute house, chuteless, chutelike, chute-the-chute, cruising chute, dirt chute, drag chute, drogue chute, flood chute, garbage chute, head chute, laundry chute, out of the chute, poop chute, refuse chute, shoot-the-chute, squeeze chute, Stony Chute, straight out of the chute, trash chute