twerk

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!”

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.

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.

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.

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..."