Definitions
jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute
Word origin
From French chute.
Used in a sentence
“On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.”
“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.”
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