Definitions
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- noun Alternative spelling of
shtick .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Yiddish) a little; a piece
- noun (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning
- noun (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating
- noun (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
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Examples
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One of her main schtick is that she supposedly is a big champion'er of full disclosure.
Is That Legal?: Michelle Malkin: Blogging While Flying? 2006
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Sorry Evan, your schtick is a little tough to swallow since you didn't have the same vigilance when a massive surplus was turned into a massive deficit between 200-2008.
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After 12 episodes the schtick is already getting old.
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VAN DYKE: Well, yes, it wasn't a dream thing, but we were just reminiscing about what happened, all the craziness that went on, and more what they call schtick luck happened.
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Thor, your whole "I'm too erudite to wallow in the sty of mediocrity with the rest of you pigs because I read * serious* books in third grade" schtick is seriously underwhelming me here.
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This year's Blogathon auction schtick is me posting fiction/poetry I wrote that you made something for/about; we auction off the piece and take sponsorship for the story, and all money goes to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.
Monday tamidon 2009
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As a pretend doctor myself I can tell you that your schtick is painfully obvious, why do you persist?
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Uh, Dana Scully, someone has stolen your schtick is screwing it up badly!
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As a pretend doctor myself I can tell you that your schtick is painfully obvious, why do you persist?
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PatrioticLiberalChristian says: back-up, your “both sides” schtick is getting old, boring, and down-right irritating.
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