Shuffle

Definitions

1. The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
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. 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.
   broadly
5. A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

Equivalents

Examples

“He made a real mess of the last⟳ shuffle.”

“The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.”

“The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.”

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