- a slow walk in which you take small steps and do not lift your feet completely off the ground
- He walked with a shuffle.
- There was a shuffle of feet as the room emptied.
- the act of mixing cards before a card game
- Give the cards a good shuffle.
- a type of dancing in which you take small steps and do not lift your feet completely off the ground
- (also reshuffle)a change in the jobs that a group of people do, for example in a government
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps from Low German schuffeln ‘walk clumsily’, also ‘deal dishonestly, shuffle (cards)’, of Germanic origin; related to shove and scuffle.
Idioms
See shuffle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarylose somebody/something in the shuffle
- [usually passive] (North American English) to not notice somebody/something or pay attention to somebody/something because of a confusing situation
- Middle children tend to get lost in the shuffle.
on shuffle
- (of pieces of music stored on a music player or music app) not in any special order
- I use my phone's music app on shuffle.
- The song came up on shuffle.
- You can put your whole music collection on shuffle.
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