chute

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chute1 (also shoot)

▶noun a sloping channel or slide for conveying things to a lower level.

■ a water slide into a swimming pool.

– origin C19: from Fr., ‘fall’ (of water or rocks); influenced by shoot.

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chute2

▶noun informal

• 1 a parachute.

• 2 Sailing a spinnaker.

– derivatives
chutist noun.