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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.

Synonyms

shamble