shtick
pronunciation
How to pronounce shtick in British English:
UK [ʃtɪk]
How to pronounce shtick in American English:
US [ʃtɪk]
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- Noun:
- (Yiddish) a little; a piece
- (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
- (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
- (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
Word Origin
- shtick (n.)
- also schtick, 1959, from Yiddish shtik "an act, gimmick," literally "a piece, slice," from Middle High German stücke "piece, play," from Old High German stucki (see stock (n.1)).
Example
- 1. That 's not my shtick .
- 2. Tried a new shtick in restaurant design .
- 3. There is clearly an audience for this sort of mean-judge shtick .
- 4. More than that , it would call into question their whole centrist shtick - for the moral of my story is that mr. ryan isn 't the only emperor who turns out , on closer examination , to be naked .
- 5. At 15 though , he had enough time to start performing at yuk yuks , a famous toronto comedy club where he began to perfect his shtick .