Schtik

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  schtik
       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}, {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}, {shtick}, {schtick}]
       3: (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us
          laugh" [syn: {shtik}, {shtick}, {schtick}]
       4: (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you
          ever fall for a shtik like that?" [syn: {shtik}, {shtick},
           {schtick}]