Meanings
plural shtiks
- alternativeAlternative spelling of shtick.
There’s a deep phoniness at the center of his [Bill O'Reilly's] shtik.
2023 March 9, Arwa Mahdawi, quoting Tucker Carlson, “So Tucker Carlson secretly hates Donald Trump … is anybody surprised?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
Yes, I’ve heard the shtik from every muscle-car manufacturer: We only make a handful of these; most owners use them as weekend toys; boomers are willing to pay the price for nostalgic fun.
2008 June 15, Lawrence Ulrich, “An Attention-Getter, Like That or Not”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(Yiddish) a little; a piece
noun(Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
shtik. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shtik
“shtik.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shtik. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shtik,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shtik.
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