chute, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chute n.

1. (US) the rectum or anus.

1945		‘Salome’ in Mess Songs & Rhymes of the RAAF 25: Standing there with her arsehole bare / Waiting for some-one to slide in there / [...] / Fair up her fucking chute.
1976		R. Price Blood Brothers 151: But the best, Butler, the fuckin’ coup de grace a the whole night [...] we did it up the chute.
2000		M.E. Dassad ‘Chickenhawk’ at www.cultdeadcow.com 🌐 Ramon grabbed Karen’s ass cheeks and quickly thrust his dick balls deep into her chute, and grabbing her hips he began thrusting into her with incredible energy.

2. the throat.

2009		R. Milward Ten Storey Love Song 206: He casually pokes them [i.e. blotters of LSD] down the chute with the last two sips of warm Kronenbourg.
2012		R. Milward Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 15: [T]he last of the pasta had gone down the chute.

3. the vagina.

2021

J. Ellroy Widespread Panic 5: I [...] sucked three packs a day since I shot out of the chute.

In phrases

down the chute (adj.) [SE chute, a narrow passage through which animals are driven for branding, shearing etc.]

1. (Aus. Und.) found guilty in court and thus imprisoned.

1931		Arrow (Sydney) 27 Nov. 4/3: A jury says that Bill is guilty, and a Judge sends him ‘down the chute’ for six months.
1948		Truth (Brisbane) 26 Dec. 20/3: In Brisbane Police Court last week [...] a pair of the city’s hardened lags went down the chute for a ‘sixer,’ for stealing.
1950		S.J. Baker in Sun. Herald (Sydney) 8 June 9/2: Then there’s [...] ‘down the chute,’ found guilty.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 232/2: down the chute – in jail.

2. (Aus. Und.) in fig. use, following the ‘road of crime’.

1953

Argus (Melbourne) 19 Dec. 8/1: Surely it's better to reform a man than to send him further down the ‘chute’ (the road of crime). The trip down the "chute" often starts in a so-called boys' home. I firmly believe that more damage is done in some of these homes than in any gaol.

up the chute (also up the shoot)

1. (Aus./N.Z.) useless, worthless, failed, in serious trouble.

1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl.
1959		W. Hall Long and the Short and the Tall Act I: If he’d have pulled the pins on one of them grenades we’d all of us been up the shoot!
1972		G.W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Aus. and N.Z. 108: New Zealand has some slang of its own [...] Up the chute.
1976		R. Morrieson Pallet on the Floor 49: You’re all up the shoot.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 117/2: up the chute worthless, stupid, wrong; eg ‘Sorry, chum, you’re up the chute on that one.’.
1993		(con. 1945) S. McAughtry Touch and Go 139: If I ever stood a chance of keeping the job it’s up the chute now.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].

2. see up the pole adj.²