subs. (common).—1. A hornpipe step in which each foot is shuffled twice in succession, the more rapidly and neatly the better.
1835. DICKENS, Sketches by Boz, p. 47. The waterman … is dancing the DOUBLE SHUFFLE, in front of the pump, to keep his feet warm.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, vol. i., p. 542. I used to talk to him and wnistle. I can just whistle … and to dance him the DOUBLE-SHUFFLE.
1871. Echo, 11 Dec., ‘Sunday among the Silk Weavers.’ The clumsy high low with which they execute scientific ‘elephant dances’ and DOUBLE-SHUFFLES.
2. subs. (common).—A trick or fakement.
