noun
(Yiddish) a little
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- a piece
- give him a shtik cake
- he's a shtik crazy
- he played a shtik Beethoven
noun
(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
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- play it straight with no shtik
noun
(Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
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- his shtik made us laugh
noun
(Yiddish) a devious trick
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- a bit of cheating
- how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?