Other forms: chutes
A chute is a sloping channel that things slide down. A laundry chute, a rubbish chute, down the chute.
Blocks of flats had rubbish chutes; hospitals and hotels have laundry chutes; and grain, coal and post all move by chute. In a playground, a chute is the slide. Chute is also short for parachute. Note that chute and shoot sound identical, and that in some regions a water chute at a fairground is spelled either way, which nobody has ever resolved.
1nounchuteA sloping channel that things slide down.
“The children slid down the water chute into the pool.”
chute is a sloping channel.
French chute means a fall, from the verb choir, to fall — from Latin cadere, the same root as cadence and accident. A chute is named after falling rather than sliding.
French
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English, today
chute
From French chute.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA