shufflenoun/ˈʃʌfəl/

• 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

  entertainmentlifestylemusicA 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

  dancedancinghobbiesA 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.

shuffleverb/ˈʃʌfəl/

• 1

  To put in a random order.

  • Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
  • You shuffle, and I'll deal.
• 2

  To change; modify the order of something.

  • But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.
• 3

  To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

  • He shuffled out of the room.
  • I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
• 4

  To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

  • I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
• 5

  To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

  • Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.
• 6

  To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another.

  • to shuffle money from hand to hand
• 7

  To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

  • Therefore you do vvell to have recourſe to your laſt Evaſion, that it vvas contriv'd by your Enemies, and ſhuffled into the Papers that vvere ſeiz'd: vvhich yet you ſee the Nation is not ſo eaſy to believe as your ovvn Fury; […]