shuffle

Plural: shuffles

Noun

• the act of mixing cards haphazardly
• walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
• The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
• The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
• An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
• 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.
• A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
• A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

Verb

Verb Forms: shuffled, shuffling, shuffles

• To walk without lifting the feet; to rearrange a deck of cards.
• walk by dragging one's feet
  • "he shuffled out of the room"
• move about, move back and forth
  • "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"
• mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
  • "shuffle the cards"
• To put in a random order.
• To change; modify the order of something.
• 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.

Examples

• Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
• He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
• He shuffled out of the room.
• I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
• I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
• Sometimes you just need to shuffle your letters in Words With Friends to see new word possibilities.
• The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
• The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
• to shuffle money from hand to hand
• You shuffle, and I'll deal.

Synonyms

make, mix, ruffle, scuffle, shamble, shambling, shuffling

Anagrams of shuffle