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Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

Definitions

1
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.
3
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
- The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
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1. A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the…
  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.
2. A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
3. 6
  A trick
  A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
  - The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.
4. 7
  To put in a random order.
  - Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
  - You shuffle, and I'll deal.
  - The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
5. 8
  To change
  To change; modify the order of something.
  - But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.
6. 9
  To move in a slovenly, dragging manner
  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.
  - [T]he aged creature came, / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand, […]
7. 10
  To change one's position
  To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
  - I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
8. 11
  To use arts or expedients
  To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
  - Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
9. 12
  To shove one way and the other
  To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
  - to shuffle money from hand to hand
10. 13
  To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
  - Therefore you do vvell to have recourſe to your laſt Evaſion, that it vvas contriv'd by your Enemies, and ſhuffled into the Papers that vvere ſeiz'd: vvhich yet you ſee the Nation is not ſo eaſy to believe as your ovvn Fury; […]

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