Chute ʃuːt Water Swimming Noun Pool Laundry/Rubbish/Garbage Upper

• a water chute (= at a swimming pool)
• a laundry/rubbish/garbage chute (= from the upper floors of a high building)

chute

1. a tube or passage down which people or things can slide
• a water chute (= at a swimming pool)
• a laundry/rubbish/garbage chute (= from the upper floors of a high building)

Extra Examples

• He tossed the discarded wrapping down the chute.
• The rubbish goes down the chute into a large bin.
• a swimming pool with a long water chute
2. a parachute (= a device that is attached to people or objects to make them fall slowly and safely when they are dropped from an aircraft. It consists of a large piece of thin cloth that opens out in the air.)

Word Origin

• sense 1 early 19th cent. (originally a North American usage): from French, ‘fall’ (of water or rocks), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ‘to fall’, from Latin cadere; influenced by shoot.