shuffle
/ˈʃʌfəl/
noun
Meaning
The act of shuffling cards.
"He made a real mess of the last shuffle."
The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
"The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle."
(by extension) A rhythm commonly used in blues music. Consists of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note. Sounds like a walker dragging one foot.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
verb
Meaning
To put in a random order.
"Don't forget to shuffle the cards."
To change; modify the order of something.
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
"He shuffled out of the room."
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
"to shuffle money from hand to hand"
To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
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