shuffle

/ˈʃʌfəl/

noun

  1. 1

    The act of shuffling cards.

    He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
  2. 2

    The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.

  3. 3

    An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

    The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
  4. 4

    (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.

  5. 5

    A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

verb

  1. 1

    To put in a random order.

    Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
  2. 2

    To change; modify the order of something.

  3. 3

    To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

    He shuffled out of the room.
  4. 4

    To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

  5. 5

    To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

  6. 6

    To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.

    to shuffle money from hand to hand
  7. 7

    To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

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