noun
Street Slang
shoot-da-chute
· noun · nola
A playground slide.
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Definitions
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Old-school New Orleans name for a playground slide. Borrowed from the 'shoot-the-chutes' water rides at turn-of-the-century amusement parks and kept alive by generations of NOLA kids long after the rides themselves disappeared.
“Push me on the shoot-da-chute, mama!”
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shoot-da-chute In A Sentence
Push me on the shoot-da-chute, mama!
Origin & Usage
From 'shoot the chutes,' a popular amusement park water ride invented by Paul Boyton in the 1890s; the name migrated to playground slides in the Gulf South.
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