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shtick

/shtik/US // ʃtɪk //UK // (ʃtɪk) //

伎俩,戏法,噱头,耍嘴皮子

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : a routine or piece of business inserted to gain a laugh or draw attention to oneself.
    • : one's special interest, talent, etc.

Examples

  • I would eventually run for and get elected to Congress, but I grew to find Limbaugh’s show to be little more than shtick.

  • “Borat 2” can’t rely on this shtick, however, because the original movie made Borat too recognizable.

  • The film relies on a steady stream of gross gags and outdated shtick.

  • But the main thing was corner shtick, we called it, and in our gang, I was the undisputed champ at corner shtick.

  • Christie has “regular guy” down, too, but with him, he has it so far down that it risks becoming shtick.

  • Critics who are less bullish on The Crazy Ones bemoan all of this, protesting that the Robin Williams shtick is worn out.

  • J-Fal and the Roots reprised their classroom-instruments shtick with Robin Thicke Thursday to sing his hit, ‘Blurred Lines.’

  • Wid a shtick in me fist Oi'll take care of ony spalpeen fwhat'll stand up in front av me.

  • Do you mind that shtick—big enough to sarve as a respictable shillalah at Donnybrook Fair?

  • Why, if it kim to a foight, the bastes could run underneath, and shtick their spears through the flure.

  • To wait a bit, and thin go round wid a thick shtick and bate all their heads.

  • He handed the cob to the waiter, and asked, "Will you plaze put some more beans on my shtick?"