Definition of "shuffle"

shuffle

/ˈʃʌfəl/

noun
plural shuffles
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, 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.
5. (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
  Quotations
  The Gifts of Nature are beyond all the Shams and Shuffles in the World.
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
verb
third-person singular simple present shuffles, present participle shuffling, simple past and past participle shuffled
1. (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
2. To change; modify the order of something.
  Quotations
  But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.
  2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 – 2 Fulham”, in BBC Sport‎
3. (transitive, intransitive) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
  Quotations
  [T]he aged creature came, / Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand, […]
  1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, stanza XI, page 88
  Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.
  1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur‎
  The regular crowd shuffle in
  1973, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music)
4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
  Quotations
  I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
  Quotations
  Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene v]
6. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.
7. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
  Quotations
  Therefore you do vvell to have recourſe to your laſt Evaſion, that it vvas contriv'd by your Enemies, and ſhuffled into the Papers that vvere ſeiz'd: vvhich yet you ſee the Nation is not ſo eaſy to believe as your ovvn Fury; […]
  1682, [John Dryden], “Epistle to the Whigs”, in The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. […], Edinburgh: [s.n.]

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