shuffle.
The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
Meaning & usage
The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
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.
A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
Where this word comes from
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
To put in a random order.
Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
You shuffle, and I'll deal.
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.
I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
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.
Where this word comes from
Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.
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