chute

• IPA^(key): /ʃ(j)uːt/, /ʃɪu̯t/
• Rhymes: -uːt
• Homophone: shoot (most accents)

• Audio (US):

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From French chute.

chute (plural chutes)

1. 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.
2. A waterfall or rapid.
4. 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.

   Coordinate term: brake

5. (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.

Clipping of parachute

chute (plural chutes)

1. (informal) A parachute.
   • 2000, Callum Henderson, Asian Dawn, page 25:

     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.

   • 2007, J. Joseph Higgins, The Splat Conspiracy: America in Peril, page 145:

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

   • 2019, David Taylor, The First Helicopter Boys:

     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.

2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

chute (third-person singular simple present chutes, present participle chuting, simple past and past participle chuted)

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

• “chute”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• chuet, teuch

• IPA^(key): /ʃyt/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: chut

From a merger of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *cadūta) and cheoite (from Vulgar Latin cadecta), both feminine past participles of cheoir, whence modern choir (compare chu).

chute f (plural chutes)

1. fall

   une chute libre ― a free fall

   un point de chute ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Sa chute lui a été fatale. ― His fall was fatal.

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   Near-synonyms: averse, précipitations

   une chute de neige ― a snowfall

   de violentes chutes de grêle ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. fall, drop (e.g. in price)

   la chute des prix ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   la chute du cours du rouble ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   une chute de tension ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. fall, collapse, downfall

   Near-synonym: effondrement

   la chute de l'Empire romain d'Occident ― the fall of the Western Roman Empire

5. ellipsis of chute d'eau waterfall

   Synonym: cascade

   Nous ne sommes plus très loin des chutes du Niagara. ― We're not far from Niagara Falls.

6. punch line (conclusion of a joke or a story; the last words that bring the comic effect)

   Attendez la chute. ― Wait for the conclusion.

7. final part of an ensemble or a shape

   la chute des reins ― the bottom of the backside

• parachute

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chute

1. inflection of chuter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chute”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “chute” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “chute” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

chute (masculine chu)

1. (continental) feminine singular of chu

   Je vouorreis byin avaer chute belle veiteure ! ― I would like to have this beautiful car !

• Rhymes: -ut͡ʃi, -utɨ
• Hyphenation: chu‧te

Borrowed from English shoot. First attested in 1902 as shoot and 1920 as chute, initially referring to soccer and later expanded to any kind of kick. Doublet of chuto.

• shoot (superseded)

chute m (plural chutes) (Brazil)

1. kick (hit or strike with the leg or foot)

   Synonym: pontapé

2. (sports) shot; kick (act of launching a ball or similar object toward a goal)

   Synonym: (Portugal) chuto

   • 1902 June 25, “Foot-ball: victoria dos brasileiros contra os inglezes”, Sport, in Correio Paulistano, volume 28, number 13.952, São Paulo, page 2, column 5:

     Nem assim foi mais feliz, pois dentro em pouco, com um shoot estupendo, o sr. Ibanez Salles marcou para os brasileiros um terceiro goal, que foi tambem o ultimo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1920 October 14, “JACEGUAY FUTEBOL CLUB (4) (Capital) X ASSOCIAÇÃO ESPORTIVA (2) (São José dos Campos)”, in A Gazeta, volume XV, number 4431, São Paulo, page 2, column 6:

     Logo após este, Salimbano com um chute de grande distancia, consegue conquistar o terceiro ponto do Jaceguay.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1970 February 3, Gérson Sabino, “Juiz ganha copa”, in Placar, number 0, São Paulo: Abril, →ISSN, page 9, column 2:

     Um chute de Zagalo, que bateu no travessão e penetrou mais de 20 centímetros dentro do gol, não foi considerado pelo bandeirinha inglês.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (informal) hunch, guess (prediction about the outcome of something)

   Synonyms: palpite, suposição, opinião

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “chute”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “chute”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “chute”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “chute”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “chute”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃute/ [ˈt͡ʃu.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ute
• Syllabification: chu‧te

Borrowed from English shoot. Doublet of chuto.

chute m (plural chutes)

1. (slang) shot (of heroin)
2. (colloquial, El Salvador) a meddlesome person; a meddler

   Synonym: entrometido

chute m or f (masculine and feminine plural chutes)

1. (colloquial, El Salvador) meddlesome, nosy

   Synonym: entrometido

chute

1. inflection of chutar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from Mayan shute.

chute m (plural chutes)

1. alternative spelling of chucte

• “chute”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024