schtick
Nouns
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(n) (Yiddish) a little; a piece
- give him a shtik cake
- he's a shtik crazy
- he played a shtik Beethoven
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(n) (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
- play it straight with no shtik
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(n) (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
- his shtik made us laugh
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(n) (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
- how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?