Definition of "chute"

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.  examples

A waterfall or rapid.  examples

The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.  examples

(informal) A parachute.  examples

(nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

(informal, intransitive) To parachute.  examples