(Yiddish) a little; a piece; give him a shtik cake; hes 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?