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Meaning of Shuffle | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈʃʌfəl

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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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