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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | schtick, schtik, shtick |
| Type of | prank, japery, buffoonery, frivolity, clowning, harlequinade |
his shtik made us laugh.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | schtick, schtik, shtick |
| Type of | small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount |
| Has types | schtikl, schtickl, shtickl, shtikl |
give him a shtik cake.
he's a shtik crazy.
he played a shtik Beethoven.
Examples of shtik
shtik
Shakhtar eschew their shorrt passing tiki taka shtik to try their luck with a long ball.
From the guardian.co.uk
Her marathon session with Beck was a chiffon of ignorance, hairstyling, egotism, and shtik.
From the newsweek.com
Any second banana could have told him it wouldn't shtik.
From the time.com
Being the shocking granny has become part of her shtik.
From the newsweek.com
Arnold cloned his good-buddy shtik for one of this summer's emerging hits, Nine Months, starring Hugh Grant.
From the time.com
He has made his belief part of his shtik.
From the newsweek.com
By design, and also by the sheer magic of Treigle's acting, this Hoffmann is a black comedy that belongs-curly locks, shtik and fiddle-to the devil.
From the time.com
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.
From the time.com
- (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven"
- (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no shtik"
- (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us laugh"
- (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"
- Piece, bit: a special bit of acting
