chute

Plural: chutes

Noun

• rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall
• sloping channel through which things can descend
• 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.
• A waterfall or rapid.
• 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.
• An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
• A parachute.
• A spinnaker.

Verb

Verb Forms: chuted, chuting, chutes

• To convey or descend through a steep, narrow passage.
• jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
• To parachute.

Examples

• He watched his opponent CHUTE a bingo across the Words With Friends board, sealing the victory.

Synonyms

jump, parachute, slide, slideway, sloping trough

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