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shuffle

/ˈʃʌfəl/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The act of shuffling cards.
  2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
  3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
  4. (by extension) 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.
  5. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
  6. To put in a random order.
  7. To change; modify the order of something.
  8. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
  9. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
  10. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
  11. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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