Noun

• 1. (Yiddish) a little; a piece;

  "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;

  "play it straight with no shtik"

• 3. (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning;

  "his shtik made us laugh"

• 4. (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating;

  "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"