shtik
- n (Yiddish) a little; a piece
give him a shtik cake
he's a shtik crazy
he played a shtik Beethoven - n (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
play it straight with no shtik - n (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
his shtik made us laugh - n (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?
- Dunne turns some good Irish shtik.
- Khan!, the Chinese private detective, has already been canceled because he does not play chop-shtik as well as Charlie Chan used to.
- While training as an Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn, though, he used to slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring.