shtick

Noun
  1. (Yiddish) a little;
    A piece (synset 113784976)
    "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven"
  2. (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention (synset 100551582)
    "play it straight with no shtik"
  3. (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning (synset 100514608)
    "his shtik made us laugh"
  4. (Yiddish) a devious trick;
    A bit of cheating (synset 100172703)
    "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"

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