schtick

noun

less common spelling of

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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Quiet as it’s kept, some fans were seemingly beginning to tire of Rhodes’ awe-shucks schtick. Brian Mazique, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 Characters like Garth, the improvisational singer alongside Kristen Wiig's Kat, pushed the duo's self-impressed, deliberately off-putting schtick to viewer limits, and beyond. Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2025 His frequent criticism of San Francisco is at least partially a schtick. Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 18 Feb. 2025 In theory, senators should be equipped to push back on his schtick. Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 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 24 Mar. 2025.

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