Usually means: Walk awkwardly with a shuffle.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. shamble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shamble: Merriam-Webster
  3. shamble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shamble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shamble: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shamble: Vocabulary.com
  7. shamble: Wordnik
  8. shamble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shamble: Wiktionary
  10. shamble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shamble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shamble: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shamble: Dictionary.com
  14. shamble (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Shamble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. shamble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. shamble: Rhymezone
  18. Shamble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. shamble: FreeDictionary.org
  20. shamble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. shamble: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. shamble: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shamble: Legal dictionary

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  1. shamble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shamble: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shamble: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shamble)

▸ verb:  To walk while shuffling or dragging the feet.
▸ noun:  (mining) One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level.

Similar:
shuffling, scuffle, shool, scamble, shaffle, shuggle, scuff, trundle, shag, swaver, more...

Opposite:
strut, march, saunter, swagger, prance

Types:
hobble, limp, lurch, more...

Adjectives:
desultory, loose, human, rapid, slow, queer, ungainly, brisk, bloudless, clumsy, whole

Colors:
    dusty gray,     faded olive,     tarnished silver,     rusty red,     sooty black, more...


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Similar:
shuffling, scuffle, shool, scamble, shaffle, shuggle, scuff, trundle, shag, swaver, more...

Opposite:
strut, march, saunter, swagger, prance

Types:
hobble, limp, lurch, more...

Adjectives:
desultory, loose, human, rapid, slow, queer, ungainly, brisk, bloudless, clumsy, whole

Colors:
    dusty gray,     faded olive,     tarnished silver,     rusty red,     sooty black, more...



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