shtick
/ʃtɪk
/(also schtick)
noun informal
1A gimmick, comic routine, style of performance, etc. associated with a particular person: there are many great comics who have based their stand-up shtick on observational comedy her shtick was to haul out her pet ferret...
- Sure do - but not when they're dancing, and that's why the whole shtick works.
- It would be easy to say Clark simply needed the time to develop his campaign shtick.
- What saves the whole shtick from utter banality is Wang's great location work and his ability to get performances out of even a block of wood.
1.1A person’s special talent, interest, or area of activity: movies about ordinary women who do extraordinary things—that’s my shtick...
- Typing or spelling has never been my schtick.
- Fighting games on a handheld are not my shtick.
- You'll have to show me even a single post where I distorted someone's view. That is not my schtick.
Origin
1960s: Yiddish, from German Stück 'piece'.