shuffles

Noun

shuffle (plural shuffles)

1. The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
   • He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
2. The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
   • The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
4. (broadly) 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.
5. A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
   • 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, […], →OCLC

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