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Meaning of shtick

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  shtick
      n 1: (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's
           a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven" [syn:
           {shtik}, {shtick}, {schtik}, {schtick}]
      2: (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a
         performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no
         shtik" [syn: {shtik}, {schtik}, {shtick}, {schtick}]
      3: (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us
         laugh" [syn: {shtik}, {schtik}, {shtick}, {schtick}]
      4: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you
         ever fall for a shtik like that?" [syn: {shtik}, {schtik},
         {shtick}, {schtick}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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