Crossword clues for shtick
shtick
- Comic's bit
- Comedian's routine
- Comic's "thing"
- Comic's gimmick
- Running gag
- Dangerfield's "No respect," e.g
- Comedic bit
- ''No respect,'' for Rodney Dangerfield, e.g
- Rodney Dangerfield's "No respect" bit, e.g
- Humorous cartoons, for Demetri Martin
- Cornball routine
- Comical routine
- Comic theme
- Comedian's routine — kitsch (anag)
- "Who's on first?" e.g
- "No respect," for Rodney Dangerfield
- Gimmick, in slang
- Gagster's gimmick
- Rodney Dangerfield's "I don't get no respect," e.g.
- Comic's routine
- Attention-getting device
- Jackie Mason's bit
- Gimmick which Connery uses to beat his enemy?
- Comic's customary performance gets criticism from drunk
- Routine for Jewish comedian, dull person sounding drunk?
- Performer’s routine
- Comic bit
- Area of expertise
- Funny bit
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
shtick \shtick\, shtik \shtik\(sht[i^]k), n. [Yiddish, pranks; fr. MHG st["u]cke, pieces.]
A person's special talent, line of business, or habitual activity.
(Show business) A comic routine or a specific gag inserted in a show for laughs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also schtick, 1959, from Yiddish shtik "an act, gimmick," literally "a piece, slice," from Middle High German stücke "piece, play," from Old High German stucki (see stock (n.1)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A characteristic trait or theme. 2 A gimmick.
WordNet
n. (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven" [syn: shtik, schtik, schtick]
(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no shtik" [syn: shtik, schtik, schtick]
(Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us laugh" [syn: shtik, schtik, schtick]
(Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?" [syn: shtik, schtik, schtick]
Wikipedia
A shtick (or schtick) is a comic theme or gimmick. "Shtick" is derived from the Yiddish word shtik (שטיק), meaning "piece"; the closely related German word Stück has the same meaning. The English word "piece" itself is also sometimes used in a similar context. Another variant is "bits of business" or just "bits"; comic mannerisms such as Laurel and Hardy's fiddling with their ties, or one of them looking into the camera shaking his head while the other one would ramble on. A shtick can also refer to an adopted persona, usually for comedy performances, that is maintained consistently (though not necessarily exclusively) across the performer's career. In this usage, the recurring personalities adopted by Laurel and Hardy through all of their many comedy films (despite the fact that they often played characters with different names and professions) would qualify as their shtick. A comedian might maintain several different shticks of this sort, particularly if they appear in a variety show that encourages them to develop multiple characters, such as Saturday Night Live.
In common usage, the word shtick has also come to mean any talent, style, habit, or other eccentricity for which a person is particularly well-known, even if not intended for comedic purposes. For example, a person who is known locally for his or her ability to eat dozens of hot dogs quickly might say that it was their shtick.
Among Orthodox Jews, "shtick" can also refer to wedding shtick, in which wedding guests entertain the bride and groom through dancing, costumes, juggling, and silliness.
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.