From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
schtick
n 1: (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's
a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven" [syn:
shtik, shtick, schtik, schtick]
2: (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a
performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no
shtik" [syn: shtik, schtik, shtick, schtick]
3: (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us
laugh" [syn: shtik, schtik, shtick, schtick]
4: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you
ever fall for a shtik like that?" [syn: shtik, schtik,
shtick, schtick]