double-shuffling

noun — 2 senses

double-shuffling

noun
1

The 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

Double-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, The Bravo of London:

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