schtick

noun

less common spelling of shtick

1
: a usually comic or repetitious performance or routine : bit
2
: one's special trait, interest, or activity : bag
he's alive and well and now doing his shtick out in HollywoodRobert Daley

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There is an artfulness to piano tuning that Woodall explains poetically to music student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), which kicks off a courtship between the two, hampered initially by Ruthie’s own stubbornness and rightful suspicion of Niki’s aloof schtick. Caleb Hammond, IndieWire, 1 Sep. 2025 The big selling point on MGS3’s survival schtick was that everything a person would need to do to outlast the jungle’s hazards needed to be done in-game. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025 It’s been over four decades since Cassandra Peterson first brought her sexy and sassy alter ego Elvira, Mistress of the Dark to television screens, putting a bodacious spin on the movie mocking horror schtick popularized by Vampira and Sinister Seymour before her. Lina Lecaro, HollywoodReporter, 16 Aug. 2025 The schtick is fast-talking facts and plenty of jokes about the companies and people and concepts that are, in one way or another, selling a bill of goods. Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for schtick

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“Schtick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schtick. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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