variants
or less commonly schtick
or shtik
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 Hollywood—
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That joke is part of his shtick.
Sports are just not my shtick.
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Originally intended as a biopic about Jessica Savitch, the TV news anchor killed in a car accident at 36 in 1983, the movie seems to be going for a female-empowerment story—definitely not Didion and Dunne’s beat—by way of screwball-comedy shtick.
—Nell Beram, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2025
The costumes by Colleen Atwood are predictably terrific, but this Alice is otherwise an eyesore, the apotheosis of Burton’s whimsical/magical shtick.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
The shtick was that the powers that be had changed their minds after seeing a recut version.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
After this, the responsibilities of playing Bush fell to Hammond and later Will Forte, who fit the character more into his own image of a silly little boy in a man’s body rather than re-enact Ferrell’s dazed and confused moron shtick.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
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Nell Beram, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2025
The costumes by Colleen Atwood are predictably terrific, but this Alice is otherwise an eyesore, the apotheosis of Burton’s whimsical/magical shtick.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
The shtick was that the powers that be had changed their minds after seeing a recut version.
—Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
After this, the responsibilities of playing Bush fell to Hammond and later Will Forte, who fit the character more into his own image of a silly little boy in a man’s body rather than re-enact Ferrell’s dazed and confused moron shtick.
—Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 15 Feb. 2025
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“Shtick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shtick. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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