riffle
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- n a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- n shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- v twitch or flutter
- v look through a book or other written material
- v stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- v shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
- Thanks to their computational speed and power, computers can riffle through reams of data and pinpoint patterns of repetition the naked eye might never notice.
- The idea was concocted by a Los Angeles copywriter-artist team, Lee Livingston and Peter Green, who turned a standard deck into a riffle of 54 political caricatures (including the .
- Nowadays, an American mother need not riffle through her Spock with alarm upon observing that her daughter has developed the unnatural strut of a pacer.