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   shuf·fle

   /ˈSHəf(ə)l/

   verb

   • 1. walk by dragging one's feet along or without lifting them fully from the ground: "I stepped into my skis and shuffled to the edge of the steep slope" Similar shambledrag one's feetstumblelumberstaggerteetertotterdodderreellurchhobblelimpsprauchle
   • ▪ shift one's position while sitting or move one's feet while standing, typically because of boredom, nervousness, or embarrassment: "Christine shuffled uneasily in her chair" Similar scrapedragscratchgrindscufflescuff
   • ▪ put part of one's body into (an item of clothing), typically in a clumsy way: "shuffling her feet into a pair of shoes, she tiptoed out of the room"
   • 2. rearrange (a deck of cards) by sliding the cards over each other quickly: "he shuffled the cards and cut the deck" Similar mixmix upmingleintermixshift aboutrearrangereorganizejumble
   • ▪ move (people or things) around so as to occupy different positions or to be in a different order: "she shuffled her papers into a neat pile"
   • ▪ play or arrange (tracks on a music player) in a random order: "the control lets you shuffle or skip songs by flicking the phone with your wrist"
   • ▪ sort or look through (a number of things) hurriedly: "he shuffled through the papers on his desk"
   • 3. behave in a shifty or evasive manner: archaic "Mr. Mills did not frankly own it, but seemed to shuffle about it"
   • ▪ get out of (a difficult situation) in an underhanded or evasive manner: "he shuffles out of the consequences by vague charges of undue influence"

   noun

   • 1. a shuffling movement, walk, or sound: "there was a shuffle of approaching feet"
   • ▪ a quick dragging or scraping movement of the feet in dancing: "Violet tried on a top hat and did a brief vaudeville shuffle"
   • ▪ a dance performed with shuffling steps.
   • ▪ a piece of music for or in the style of a shuffle: "it's the usual blend of boogie, shuffle, and ballad"
   • ▪ a rhythmic motif based on a shuffle dance step and typical of early jazz, consisting of alternating quarter notes and eighth notes in a triplet pattern.
   • 2. an act of shuffling a deck of cards: "the discard is removed from the deck until the next shuffle"
   • ▪ a change of order or relative positions; a reshuffle: "the president will have to consider a cabinet shuffle in the spring"
   • ▪ a facility on a music player for playing tracks in an arbitrary order: "I had my iPod on shuffle and ‘Eleanor Rigby’ just happened to begin playing"
   • 3. a piece of equivocation or subterfuge. archaic

   Word Origin mid 16th century: perhaps from Low German schuffeln ‘walk clumsily’, also ‘deal dishonestly, shuffle (cards)’, of Germanic origin; related to shove and scuffle.

   Derivatives

   • 1. shuffler noun

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