shuffle

Etymology

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

noun

1. The act of shuffling cards.
   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. (by extension, music) 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.
5. (dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.
6. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To put in a random order.
   Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
   You shuffle, and I'll deal.
   The data packets are shuffled before transmission.
   I'm going to shuffle all the songs in my playlist.
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. December 28, 2010, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 – 2 Fulham”, in BBC Sport
3. (transitive, intransitive) 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.
   Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor. 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 4, in The Subtle Minotaur
   The regular crowd shuffle in 1973, “Piano Man”, Billy Joel (music)
4. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
5. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
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.