Noun
(Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
(Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
(Yiddish) a little; a piece
Source: WordNetPeople only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick. Scott Westerfeld
When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick. Loudon Wainwright III
I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian. Scott Adsit
[T]he larger moral cowardice that has overtaken the party... Trump's shtick is that he's the grievance candidate... He's focused on the economically squeezed Caucasian voter... He is speaking to that rage. Mexican rapists, clever Chinese traders, African American people as dogs. That's Trump's DNA. Mike Murphy (political consultant)
For as long as I wanted to swim, I also wanted to do something on TV. My best friend in high school, we used to pretend like we had a TV show, and we had this dream of being the next 'Kate Allie.' Having that kind of a shtick. Summer Sanders
how did you ever fall for a shtik like that? Source: Internet