Definition of shuffle off
transitive verb
: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
intransitive verb
:to be on one's way :mosey along
- let him shuffle off to the wilderness
- —J. B. Priestley
