twerk UK /twɜːk/US /twɜɹk/verb 2noun 4forms 3 verb2 •(informal) 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. — 2005 •(old-fashioned) To twitch or jerk.He twerked an eyebrow at his wife. — 2005 noun4 •An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail.Note of male on territory, a loud kurr or twerk. — 1961 •(informal) Synonym of twerking (“a sexually-provocative dance, involving the performer thrusting their hips back from a low squatting stance while shaking their buttocks”). •(old-fashioned) 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..." — 1898 •(slang, old-fashioned) 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?'" — 1930 formstwerked · twerking · twerks
