Meaning of shtick

(noun) (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?"