Definition of: shuffle

(shuf′əl) noun
1. A mixing or changing of the order of things, as of cards in a pack before each deal.
2. A hesitating, evasive, or tricky course; prevarication; artifice.
3. A scraping of the feet, as in walking; a slow, dragging gait.
4. A dance, or the step used in it, where the dancer pushes his foot along the floor at each step.
—v. ·fled, ·fling v.t.
1. To shift this way and that; mix; confuse; disorder; especially, to change the order of by mixing, as cards in a pack.
2. To move (the feet) along the ground or floor with a dragging gait.
3. To change from one place to another.
4. To make up or remove fraudulently or hastily; also, to put aside carelessly: with up, off, or out.
—v.i.
5. To change position; shift ground.
6. To resort to indirect methods; prevaricate.
7. To dance the shuffle.
8. To scrape the feet along.
9. To scrape or struggle along awkwardly. [Prob. <LG schuffeln move with dragging feet, mix cards, etc.]