shuffle
/ˈʃʌfəl/ noun C1- The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them. · He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
- The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
- An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. · The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
- 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.
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