v. t. | 1. | To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; | ||||||
2. | To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack. | |||||||
3. | To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
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v. i. | 1. | To change the relative position of cards in a pack; | ||||||
2. | To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. | |||||||
3. | To use arts or expedients; to make shift. | |||||||
4. | To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. | |||||||
n. | 1. | The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. | ||||||
2. | A trick; an artifice; an evasion. |
Noun | 1. | shuffle - the act of mixing cards haphazardly |
2. | shuffle - walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" | |
Verb | 1. | shuffle - walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" |
2. | shuffle - move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS" | |
3. | shuffle - mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" |