double-shuffling

noun

The action of doing a double-shuffle.

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of double-shuffle
noundouble-shuffling (countable and uncountable, plural double-shufflings)

plural double-shufflings

  1. countableuncountableThe action of doing a double-shuffle.

    To describe it is quite impossible, but, though there was a good deal of tossing of legs and double-shuffling, it seemed to our untutored minds to be more of a play than a dance[.]

    1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. countableuncountableDouble-dealing; treachery.

    Suppose you write a letter now to Scotland Yard, admitting that you've been mistaken, and let me post it. Then there can't be any double shuffling.

    1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London
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