| Noun | 1. | riffle - a small wave on the surface of a liquidmoving ridge, wave - one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) | |
| 2. | riffle - shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners | |
| Verb | 1. | riffle - twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"move, displace - cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense; "Move those boxes into the corner, please"; "I'm moving my money to another bank"; "The director moved more responsibilities onto his new assistant" | |
| 2. | riffle - look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"peruse - examine or consider with attention and in detail; "Please peruse this report at your leisure" | |
| 3. | riffle - stir up (water) so as to form ripplesflow, flux - move or progress freely as if in a stream; "The crowd flowed out of the stadium" | |
| 4. | riffle - shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermixshuffle, mix, ruffle - mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" | |