Chute

name

1. A surname.
2. A locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia.
3. A civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below.

noun

Etymology: Clipping of parachute.

1. A parachute.

   “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.”

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

2. A spinnaker.

verb

Etymology: Clipping of parachute.

1. To parachute.