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UK
/ʃtˈɪk/
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[ US /ˈʃtɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈʃtɪk/ ]
NOUN
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(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
play it straight with no shtik -
(Yiddish) a little; a piece
he's a shtik crazy
he played a shtik Beethoven
give him a shtik cake -
(Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
how did you ever fall for a shtik like that? -
(Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
his shtik made us laugh
How To Use schtick In A Sentence
- One of her main schtick is that she supposedly is a big champion'er of full disclosure. Is That Legal?: Michelle Malkin: Blogging While Flying?
- Typing or spelling has never been my schtick.
- This year's Blogathon auction schtick is me posting fiction/poetry I wrote that you made something for/about; we auction off the piece and take sponsorship for the story, and all money goes to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Monday
- One of the great appeals of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming theory in certain sectors is the fact that what it takes to fight the imagined threat (reduced trade, reduced economic growth, government controls on the economy, populist hammering of energy companies, micro-controls on individual decision-making) are exactly the things the socialists wanted to do before their schtick became tired. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Copenhagen Income Redistribution Conference
- Here, too, it resembles "The Producers," which was a last-gasp homage to the anything-for-a-laugh Borscht Belt schtickery on which the stand-up comedy of my childhood was based, with four-letter words sprinkled on top to give it a factitiously up-to-date air. The Re-'Producers'
- So please save your noble, peace loving, one-with-nature savage schtick for the ignorant do-gooders who will mule, whimper, sob, slobber in maudeline fashion and plead for your forgiveness and that of your ancestors as an act of the collective white guilt that they exhibit. Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
- I'm trying to decide if I really want to work "wart" into my schtick ZUG.com > ZUG Live
- More that, you know, humorless, self-righteous schtick you do. THE SAVING GRACES
- Thor, your whole "I'm too erudite to wallow in the sty of mediocrity with the rest of you pigs because I read * serious* books in third grade" schtick is seriously underwhelming me here. Little Kids Can Write Books Better Than You
- VAN DYKE: Well, yes, it wasn't a dream thing, but we were just reminiscing about what happened, all the craziness that went on, and more what they call schtick luck happened. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dick Van Dyke Discusses His Career in Entertainment - September 22, 2000
