chasse patate
French, noun
chasse patate is spelled C-H-A-S-S-E-P-A-T-A-T-E (12 letters). Chasse patate is a French feminine noun meaning “a pointless chase, wild-goose chase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does chasse patate mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea pointless chase, wild-goose chase
- 2
femininea group chasing a breakaway that fails to catch it and then gets stuck between the breakaway and the peloton
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of chasse patate
- chasses patates plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).