shuffle
IPA: ʃˈʌfʌɫ
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.
- (by extension, music) 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.
- (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
- To change; modify the order of something.
- (transitive, intransitive) 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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Examples of "shuffle" in Sentences
- How many times did you shuffle
- Who shuffled the cards last time
- He shuffled his feet on the floor.
- He shuffled the cards to play a game.
- The rest of the cards are then shuffled.
- The Arnold conjecture is lost in the shuffle.
- Also lost in the shuffle is the bad foul by the Mavs player.
- As long as shuffle is turned off, it should be fairly reliable.
- The cards are shuffled and cut by the person to the right of the dealer.
- The remaining fifty cards are shuffled and placed on the top of the King.
- In preparation for the hand the dealer shuffles the cards in the usual manner.
- In addition to getting lost in the Triple-A title shuffle, college basketball games also feel the pressure of their NBA rivals, which have traditionally been released in the October time frame.
- I drove along the same route only this time I past the larger intersection at T. C. Jester where I know Lucy hardly ever comes to a complete stop; doing what I call a shuffle as opposed to a legal complete stop.
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