~ (through) sth to turn over papers or the pages of a book quickly and without reading them all:
[V] He was riffling through the papers on his desk. * [VN] to riffle the pages of a book
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, riffle is tagged as verb.
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