shuffle

Meanings

Noun

  • The act of shuffling cards.
  • The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
  • An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
  • 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 dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
  • A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

Verb

  • To put in a random order.
  • To change; modify the order of something.
  • To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
  • 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 remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

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