simple past tense and past participle 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. / A waterfall or rapid.

(informal) A parachute. / (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.

(informal, intransitive) To parachute.

plural of chute

present participle of chute

A surname.

plural of Chute

A vertical shaft in a building down which dirty clothes and linens can be dropped, to land in a laundry area on a lower floor.

(idiomatic) At the start, immediately.