Source : WordNet®

schtick
     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}]
     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}]
     3: (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us
        laugh" [syn: {shtik}, {schtik}, {shtick}]
     4: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you
        ever fall for a shtik like that?" [syn: {shtik}, {schtik},
         {shtick}]