shtick

1. (Yiddish) a little; a piece;

"give him a shtik cake"

"he's a shtik crazy"

"he played a shtik Beethoven"

2. (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention;

"play it straight with no shtik"

3. (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning;

"his shtik made us laugh"

4. (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating;

"how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"