1. a sloping channel or slide for conveying things to a lower level
2. a parachute
Usage: informal

1. to convey by or as if by a chute

Examples

• The laundry chute connects all floors of the building.
• Coal tumbled down the chute into the basement.
• The playground has a tall slide with a curved chute.
• His chute failed to open during the skydiving jump.
• Workers chute the grain directly into storage bins.
• The water park’s newest chute is 50 feet high.
• Emergency chutes deployed from the airplane doors.