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