misshuffle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To shuffle incorrectly.

   • Small wonder that, in her trembling confusion, she misshuffled notes and slid Helen's into Bender's envelope.
   • More than once a pit trader has turned on a pit clerk who misshuffled a stack of orders during a fast price swing.
   • The letter enclosed had been misshuffled, so that the last page came first, bearing only the PPS.
2. 2

   An instance of misshuffling.

   • Elder Peter groaned. "This was a sair misshuffle."
   • Right now I have the suspicion that the ace of diamonds is trapped forever, face down, beneath the king of diamonds, which is sneering at me like Juror Number Five, and my whole life feels like a similar misshuffle.
   • There are constant jams and misshuffles that cause the game to stop while someone attracts the attention of the pit boss so that the shuffling monster can be fixed.

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