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Definition of Shtick

1. Noun. (Yiddish) a little; a piece. "He played a shtik Beethoven"

2. Noun. (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention. "Play it straight with no shtik"

3. Noun. (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning. "His shtik made us laugh"

4. Noun. (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating. "How did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"

Definition of Shtick

1. Noun. A characteristic trait or theme. ¹

2. Noun. A gimmick. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shtick

1. an entertainment routine [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shtick

shrug shrug off shrugged shrugging shruggingly shrugs shrunk shrunken shtchi shtchis

shtetel shtetels shtetl shtetlach shtetls shtick (current term) shtickier shtickiest shtickl shticks

shticky shtik shtikl shtiks shtook shtooks shtoom shtreimel shtreimels shtuck

Literary usage of Shtick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... they w'u'd all shtick together. ... An' McGinniss was th' b'y that w'u'd shtick wid th' rist av th' b'ys if 't was only f'r th' ..."

2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"'Tis a dirty world we live in, Desmond, my boy, but sure that's all the more reason that the few decent boys there should shtick together. ..."

3. Hurrish: A Study by Emily Lawless (1887)
"But 'twas na gun dun that"— looking at the corpse and the dark brown mark of the wound on the temple,—" na, na, na gun, but a shtick. An' a good man, too, ..."

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