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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The baby doll voice, the dumb blonde schtick, create a requisite layer of fiction. Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025 Here's a moment of Matheson and Brooks doing some schtick in the movie. EW.com, 5 May 2025 Nothing about Johnson’s intensity feels like a schtick. Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2025 This means flopping through different symbolic rooms of an imaginary house — a schtick that Danielle Deadwyler also had to do for the same reason in The Woman in the Yard, a movie that might still be playing when Thunderbolts* hits the cineplex. Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 29 Apr. 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 Jun. 2025.

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