Shtik has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
(Yiddish) a little; a piece
"give him a shtik cake"
"he's a shtik crazy"
"he played a shtik Beethoven"
2
(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
"play it straight with no shtik"
3
(Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
"his shtik made us laugh"
4
(Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
"how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"
5
Alternative spelling of shtick
Example Sentences
"give him a shtik cake"
noun
"he's a shtik crazy"
noun
"he played a shtik Beethoven"
noun
"play it straight with no shtik"
noun
"his shtik made us laugh"
noun
"how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"
noun
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