As taken from Wikipedia, and which I checked out elsewhere, the first instance of this term is the title of a Jazz song from 1926 by Bennie Moten. Beyond that, it's a term that's only been given real meaning by the movie Lucky Number Slevin, in which it's used to refer to a kind of con game. Specifically a con in which a combination of distraction and subterfuge cause the mark to turn their attention away from the plot which proceeds in the opposite direction. The term itself is weighted with football, gambling, and other innuendo but since it didn't exist as a phrase until that movie was released, you could read that subtext into it or not. At it's simplest, a good head fake in sports is a Kansas City Shuffle. At a more complex level an army massing battalions of tanks on one front to occupy enemy attention and draw them out of fortified positions while in reality a naval attack ensues instead would also be a Kansas City Shuffle. In short, it's a cute name for a kind of misdirection.
"They look right... and you look left." Lucky Number Slevin's simplest definition of a Kansas City Shuffle delivered by Bruce Willis
There is anecdotal evidence that a football play was called a Kansas City Shuffle. (Note: a shuffle is a type of play)
"Your shoelaces are untied" (followed by tweaking the victims nose) "Now that my friend, is the old Kansas City Shuffle."
There is anecdotal evidence that a football play was called a Kansas City Shuffle. (Note: a shuffle is a type of play)
"Your shoelaces are untied" (followed by tweaking the victims nose) "Now that my friend, is the old Kansas City Shuffle."
by Stephen Daedalus November 07, 2006
Definition 1. "When they look left and you move right." make them look to the left as a distraction and while they are distracted you move to the right.
Definition 2. A sort of slide of hand or trick in getting someones attention by getting them to look one way while something else is going on in another direction.
Definition 2. A sort of slide of hand or trick in getting someones attention by getting them to look one way while something else is going on in another direction.
Example one. Guy 1 "Hey man we need to trick this guy out of his money." Guy 2 "?lets pull the Kansans city shuffle."
Example two. Guy 1 "These guys are blocking our only way out because they think we have there money." Guy 2 "Lets pull the Kansas city shuffle, make them look left and we'll go right."
Example two. Guy 1 "These guys are blocking our only way out because they think we have there money." Guy 2 "Lets pull the Kansas city shuffle, make them look left and we'll go right."
by Sleven kelevra June 28, 2012
From Lucky Number Slevin. The Kansas City Shuffle is a deception move characterised by causing the victim to look right as you attack on the left.
Smith: "There was a time when Brown Sugar over there was a fine young woman."
Nick: *looking towards her*
Smith: *leaves wheelchair and attacks Nick from behind* "the Kansas City Shuffle"
Nick: *looking towards her*
Smith: *leaves wheelchair and attacks Nick from behind* "the Kansas City Shuffle"
by CrazEkid March 21, 2006
When you see a fine girl walking down the street in Kansas City, and once she gets in the car she pulls a gun out of her purse and takes your shit.
Girl: Kansas City's cool, you know you just gotta be aware of that Kansas City Shuffle.
Driver: The Kansas City Shuffle? What's that?
Passenger: Yeah, the fuck is that?
Girl: It's like this....
Gun shots.
Driver: Oh shit bitch!
Driver: The Kansas City Shuffle? What's that?
Passenger: Yeah, the fuck is that?
Girl: It's like this....
Gun shots.
Driver: Oh shit bitch!
by the_waitresss October 29, 2011
When casinos use electroencephalographs and trans cranial magnetic stimulation to influence card games or when someone defines a word and ruins poker for everyone.
Man: “ Damn, did he just pull a San Francisco sidestep and bankrupt a bunch of casinos?”
Other Man: “ Nah, That was a straight up Kansas City Shuffle.”
Other Man: “ Nah, That was a straight up Kansas City Shuffle.”
by Crucially Dreaming April 16, 2023
When a casino uses neural networks to influence poker tournaments or when someone defines a word on urban dictionary and ruins poker for every casino in the world.
Man: “ Whoa! Did that guy just pull the ‘ol Kansas City Shuffle and bankrupt a shitload of casinos? That ain’t retarded”
by Crucially Dreaming April 16, 2023
Its a type of misdirection, where person A makes it look like person A thinks the other(s) don't know what person A is doing. Then the other(s) try to hide the fact they know and set up a scheme for person A which he falls for(the katalyst). Then at moment supreme set up by person A takes advantage of the other(s) because person A knows they think person a thinks: you don't know.
It takes great patience and endurance to pull this of for for person A has to schemed willingly and has to pretend for a very long time he doesn't know the other(s) schemed him.
Many people don't know this but a kansas city shuffle is often used in the stock market with all of the other traders as victims.
It takes great patience and endurance to pull this of for for person A has to schemed willingly and has to pretend for a very long time he doesn't know the other(s) schemed him.
Many people don't know this but a kansas city shuffle is often used in the stock market with all of the other traders as victims.
by Kansascityshuffle August 22, 2017