twerk

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Synonym of twerking (“a sexually-provocative dance, involving the performer thrusting…

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

   • 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!”
2. 2

   A fitful movement similar to a twitch or jerk.

   • "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.
3. 3

   To dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while…

   To dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in twerking.

   • 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
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   1. 4

      To twitch or jerk.

      • […] in the language of the unsophisticated Port Melbourne suburbanite a bed was still something primarily intended for love-making – all the eyebrow-raising and moustache-twerking in Jo'burg couldn't alter that.
      • He twerked an eyebrow at his wife.
   2. 5

      A puny or insignificant person, generally male

      A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp.

      • "'...but when they load a pack onto you, what'll you do? A little twerk like you?'"
      • "But even then the poor twerk's whiskers and little eyes looked kind of wistful as if the clothes had got him and was taking him somewhere..."
      • You don't need those twerks who walk in off the street.
   3. 6

      An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail.

      • Note of male on territory, a loud kurr or twerk.

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