shuffle

About 1.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.

   He made a real mess of the last shuffle.

2. noun The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
3. noun An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.

   The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.

4. noun 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. noun A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
6. noun A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
7. verb To put in a random order.

   Don't forget to shuffle the cards.

8. verb To change; modify the order of something.

Similar words

scuffle make mix shamble shambling ruffle reshuffle move realignment scrimmage

Often followed by

of the and along off them in through to

Word family

shuffled shuffler shufflers shuffles shuffling