chute
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Is chute a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (horse racing) An extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
noun (English)
1. (informal) A parachute.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."informal
2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.broadlyslang
verb (English)
1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.informalintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary