schtick
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- noun
- /ʃtɪk/
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schtick
- I get your whole nice guy schtick, all right?
- the whole schtick
Examples
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Dye uses his juggling clown schtick to draw the middle school kids' attention, and then ...
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You actually like him, with his whole Mother Teresa schtick?
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So far, his schtick on the economy has been all dessert, no vegetables.
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Maybe I would have found the book more annoying if I were more familiar with her schtick.
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Although I liked Carlin's schtick on religion well enough, I like Lewis Black's better.
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Every time I hear Obama do that phony "preacher man" from way down south schtick.
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I'll leave the whole drama queen schtick to you—you are so much better suited for it.
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By "certain polemical parties," are you hinting at the old "atheists are just like fundamentalists" schtick?
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Comparing something in America with Nazism is part of Glenn Beck's schtick, and it is just plain ignorant.
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His clowning schtick always gets the audience laughing at his shows.
Synonyms
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A clever trick or device used to attract attention
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Comedy that uses clumsy falls and silly chases to make people laugh
A short funny act that makes people laugh in a show
A funny act a performer uses to make people laugh
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Etymology
Schtick comes from the Yiddish word shtik, from the German Stück, which means 'piece'. It was used for a 'piece' of a show, so today a schtick is a performer's regular routine or joke.