Shuffle
/ˈʃʌfəl/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:16 ptsWWF:17 pts7 letters
Definition of Shuffle
noun
- The act of shuffling cards.
"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."
- (by extension) 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.
- A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
verb
- To put in a random order.
"Don't forget to shuffle the cards."
- To change; modify the order of something.
- To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
"He shuffled out of the room."
- To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
- To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
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