Definitions for shticks

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IPA: /ʃtɪk/

Shticks is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 126 anagrams from letters in shticks (chiksst).

Definitions for shticks

noun

  1. (especially in comic acting) a routine or piece of business inserted to gain a laugh or draw attention to oneself.
  2. one's special interest, talent, etc.

Origin of shticks

1955-60; Yiddish shtik pranks, whims, literally, piece Middle High German stücke, Old High German stucki (German Stück); cf. stucco

Examples for shticks

He never said a word but to take the shtick and fire me dead with it on the sthrand.

He'll talk up his Senate ambitions for awhile, bask in the political limelight, and then stick with his current shtick.

She generated howls of laughter as she launched into her “do the math” shtick about  the “hair and makeup” handicap.

One reason younger audiences have not yet embraced the videos may be that the shtick feels stale.

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

Thin will ye tell me, Mrs. Ryan, why didn't they shtick till it?

Divil a shtick but me door-key, an' that they tuk home an' lift in the door.

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

And the dupes are the folks who bought into the shtick, carrying signs at Tea Party rallies that read “Glenn Beck is my hero.”

It was "the shtick" which kept things together so far as they were kept so at all.

Word Value for shticks
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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