shtick

variants also schtick or shtik
as in act
a performance regularly presented by an individual or group his shtick as a falling-down drunk isn't funny to people battling alcoholism

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Recent Examples of shtick With all due respect, Roundhouse veered away from the shtick of All That, perhaps to its detriment. Eliot Glazer, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024 The fatal flaw is that there’s no emotion holding the bits of shtick together. Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2024 But the singer has decided to retire the lyrical shtick this time around. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024 Here’s Why By Samantha Allen First of all, the idea that Chappell Roan would find such a performance offensive is a fundamental misunderstanding of the pop star’s whole shtick. James Factora, Them, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for shtick 

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“Shtick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shtick. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.

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