shuffle vs sidestep

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. 

sidestep

noun
  • A physical motion or metaphorical act to avoid or dodge something. 

  • A step to the side. 

verb
  • To step to the side. 

  • To avoid or dodge. 

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