chutes
nounUK /ʃuːts/
US /ʃuːts/
Chutes are long, slanted tubes or slides that things slide down.
The kids sent their toy cars down the chutes at the playground.
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2. Short for parachutes, the cloth devices that slow a person or object falling through the air.
The skydivers opened their chutes high above the field.
3. Narrow passages or tubes used to move things like trash or coal from a higher place to a lower one.
He dropped the rubbish down the chute outside the building.
4. Steep sections of a river or a course where water or objects rush downward.
The raft sped through the rocky chutes of the river.