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twerker

noun

Etymology

From twerk + -er.

  1. inherited from ġearcian — “to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply”
  2. derived from ġearc
  3. derived from yerkid — “tightly pulled”
  4. inherited from yerk
  5. compounded as twerk — “twitch + jerk”
  6. suffixed as twerker — “twerk + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who twerks.

    • And some of the songs are good at least for a few laughs, including "Booty Meat," in which Soulja Boy demands all the boppers, twerkers and the like "shake that booty meat," over and over.
    • It will bring her back into the Disney fold as an adult and perhaps enable her to find a healthy balance between her warring halves - the publicity-seeking twerker and, somewhere still inside, the charming Smiley Miley Cyrus.
    • It may be the hot dance craze of the moment, but one hapless young twerker appears to take things a little too far when she literally sets herself on fire in the middle of a raunchy routine.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA