coup de théâtre vs shuffle

coup de théâtre

noun
  • A theatrical trick or gesture, something staged for dramatic effect. 

  • A sudden or unexpected event in a play, pulled off by the author, the director, or even an actor. 

shuffle

noun
  • A trick; an artifice; an evasion. 

  • An instance of walking without lifting one's feet. 

  • The act of shuffling cards. 

  • 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. 

  • The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player. 

  • A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth. 

verb
  • To put in a random order. 

  • To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. 

  • To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another. 

  • To change; modify the order of something. 

  • To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. 

  • To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. 

  • To use arts or expedients; to make shift. 

How often have the words coup de théâtre and shuffle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )