schtick   (TTS Sound)

The noun schtick has 4 senses

• shtik, shtick, schtik, schtick -- ((Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven")


• shtik, schtik, shtick, schtick -- ((Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no shtik")


• shtik, schtik, shtick, schtick -- ((Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us laugh")


• shtik, schtik, shtick, schtick -- ((Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?")