schtick

Noun

• (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
  • how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?
    

• (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
  • his shtik made us laugh
    

• (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
  • play it straight with no shtik
    

• (Yiddish) a little; a piece
  • give him a shtik cake
    
  • he's a shtik crazy
    
  • he played a shtik Beethoven
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  shtik , schtik , shtick