| 单词 | riffle shuffle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriffle shuffle a. A method of shuffling a deck of playing cards by dividing it into two parts and bending the edges or backs before releasing them so that they interleave into one stack. More fully riffle shuffle.In quot. 1862: the action of bending the cards in order to shuffle them. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > dealing, cutting, or shuffling shuffling1579 deal1607 shuffle1651 lifting1674 cut1729 misdeal1797 riffle1862 ruffle1872 long deal1893 handout1904 1861 Southern Literary Messenger Jan. 42/2 The foppish dealer who was shuffling the cards with great exactness. ‘Only in for a slight riffle to-night, Alphonse,’ said Ernest laughing.] 1862 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 21 Apr. 3/3 The ‘sharp’ gives the cards a riffle and by some hocus-pocus arrangement, the two aces which were supposed to be in different parts of the pack, come out together. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 137 The riffle, or butt-in, as it is called in America, is the shuffle in which..the thumbs ‘riffle’, or bend up the corners of the cards. 1902 S. W. Erdnase Artifice, Ruse & Subterfuge at Card Table 20 Many players never used the ‘riffle’, that is shuffling on the table by springing the ends of two packets into each other, though this method is now by far the more prevalent among men who play for money. 1970 K. Roos What did Hattie See? xi. 105 He gave the deck a riffle shuffle, carefully not disturbing the four bottom cards. 1984 N.Y. Times 23 June 34/1 Divide it exactly in half and simulate a perfect riffle shuffle by taking one card in turn from each pile. 2004 L. H. Harper Global Methods Pref. p. xii After Diaconis calculated that it takes seven riffle shuffles to randomize a deck of cards, it became a legal requirement for black jack dealers in Las Vegas. < as lemmas |
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