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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