Twerk

/twɜɹk/ · noun

Meaning

Synonym of twerking (“a sexually-provocative dance, involving the performer thrusting their hips back from a low squatting stance while shaking their buttocks”)..

Definitions by Sense

1. Synonym of twerking (“a sexually-provocative dance, involving the performer thrusting their hips back from a low squatting stance while shaking their buttocks”).
2. (original sense, now dated) A fitful movement similar to a twitch or jerk.
3. To dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in twerking.
4. (original sense, now dated) To twitch or jerk.
5. (slang, dated, US) A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp.
6. An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail.

Example Sentences

It was the twerk that bounced around the world in less than a day. Sound bites from reporters said, “Miley Cyrus’s JAW-DROPPING TWERK-a-thon,” the “twerk-tacular,” “twerk-and-tongue work,” in the “twerk seen ’round the world!”

"Not so the Freycineti, who looked me over critically, elevated his head crest, and giving his tail an odd little twerk, proceeded to hop deliberately up the limb like a sap-sucker..."

"I hardly realize it yet that you are my really truly coz," and she gave the girl's long, brown braids a familiar twerk.

With a quick twerk at her shift, the girl lifted it to her rounded belly, and squatted nakedly on his lap.

Gaea then stood up over me and turned so that her butt was facing me. She then had the nerve to start twerking.

"Shortie really knows how to twerk it don't she?" Marcus boasted, while still recording.

Let me see what ya twerkin with / Look at those hips

Twerking, as it is known in the hip-hop community, is a hard-hitting, rump-shaking dance move that celebrities including Beyonce and Miley Cyrus have been known to bust out, but it has also gotten a group of San Diego high school students suspended.

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• twerks
• twerking
• twerked

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