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Usage examples of shtick.

Part of her unique stage shtick, her comedic ID, was to present herself as a true Southwest chick, a sand-sucking cactuskicker who ate a bowl of jalapeno peppers every morning for breakfast, who hung out in country-music bars with guys named Tex and Dusty, who was a full sun-ripened woman but also tough enough to grab a rattlesnake if it dared to hiss at her, crack it like a whip, and snap its brains out through its eye sockets.

Karl says, tossing the tablet onto the desk where it caroms off a stack of books, "spare me the flim flam nobility, the shtick about the tireless search for truth.

The damn thing was more relentless than the drug dealers in the city, who did their come-on shtick for kids at schoolyard fences, on street corners, in videogame parlors, outside movie theaters, at the malls, wherever they could find a venue, indefatigable, as hard to eradicate as body lice.

The president runs the whole shtick - a million population, which is piddling by modern standards but a lot of people if you try and count heads - he runs it like a household, a family, not a nation.

The shtick, the bit, the handle, ohmigod there it is, as perfect as a bluewhite diamond.

This is the elitist side of the posthumanism shtick, potentially as threatening to her post enlightenment ideas as the divine right of kings.

Full of sight-gags, double-entendres, potty humor, and every bit of comic shtick available to man (and, let's face it, this is not the kind of movie women tend to write), Austin Powers was a hoot and a half.

It would mean that I would have to leave when George came on, or say, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield had to do the pill or auto-wreck shticks before there was room for Racquel Welch's vibes.

I watched Johnny Stomp savor my bravado, Davey Goldman write down the line for his boss's shticks, and Morris Hornbeck do queasy double takes like he wasn't copacetic with the play.

The Nakeds faced a Camelotian dilemma: whether to accede to the realities of social stratification and capitulate to appearances as eveiything and deny your own hunger and seek contentment in conformity and tone down your spiel, spritz, shtick, and performance capability and rework it to suit a mainstream audience-or go iconoclastic all the way and fuck this overweening adolescent urge to BELONG.