Chute

Definitions

1. A parachute.
   informal
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. 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.
4. A waterfall or rapid.
5. A locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia.
   countable, uncountable
6. A spinnaker.
   broadly, slang
7. 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.
8. A civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below.
   countable, uncountable
9. An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.

Equivalents

Examples

“Yet the initial IMF rescue⟳ plan⟳ was far from the parachute which it professed to be – the chute did open⟳ briefly but only for it to "Roman candle", the hapless victim left to plummet to earth with a sickening thud.”

“At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.”

“On the second operation the 1,000 mortar bombs were parachuted into the LZ on 125 chutes; all were on target⟳ but two roman candled which sent everyone diving for cover⟳ and necessitated the change⟳ of some knickers.”

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