Definition of shuffle off
: to get rid of : push away : shirk
- when we have shuffled off this mortal coil
- —Shakespeare
- shuffle off the heavy burden of our guilt
- —Richard Chase
- teachers cannot … shuffle off their responsibility
- —C. I. Glicksberg
: to be on one's way : mosey along
- let him shuffle off to the wilderness
- —J. B. Priestley
