Definitions for Chute

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Chute chute

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IPA: /ʃut/

Chute is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in Chute (cehtu).

Definitions for Chute

noun

1. an inclined channel, as a trough, tube, or shaft, for conveying water, grain, coal, etc., to a lower level.
2. a waterfall or steep descent, as in a river.
3. a water slide, as at an amusement park.
4. a steep slope, as for tobogganing.
5. a parachute.

Idioms

1. out of the chute, at the start; at the very beginning:

verb (used with object)

1. to move or deposit, by or as if by means of a chute:
2. to drop from an aircraft by means of a parachute:

verb (used without object)

1. to descend by or as if by means of a chute.
2. to descend from the air by or as if by a parachute.

Origin of Chute

1715-25; French, Middle French, representing Old French cheoite a fall, nominalized feminine past participle of cheoir to fall (Vulgar Latin *cadēre, for Latin cadere; cf. Examples for Chute

Say what you will about the Israelis, but they are not slow out of the chute.

They fled toward a patch of rocks and cactus in the direction of Devil's chute.

As the door swung open, he threw the 'chute out toward the ground.

I'll get ya the plane and chute if y'll put up a deposit to cover the cost.

This chute, Fuller had said, led to the outside at the back of the reduction plant.

Some get hurt in the chute, which fits the bull like a coffin.

Lane rose, but then he motioned to the chute, where the other cowboys were sitting astride the fences.

Even if you're already dead, pull the ripcord ring of your chute!

I found the vein a thousand feet up the chute of Dry Fork Gulch.

It stops, in its turn, before a chute of smooth granite in the form of a bowl.