to twerk

Examples

• All

• Hey, Luce, all the bridesmaids are twerking on the dance floor...

  A Nice Girl Like You (2020)

• Ooh, twerk it, twerk it!

  Fun Size (2012)

• Twerk it, work it and then twerk it, work it.

• You can only twerk if you can actually twerk.

• Eddie, come on, you can twerk.

  Barbershop: The Next Cut (2016)

• And some of us don't wanna twerk anymore.

  Bikini Model Academy (2015)

• I don't know how to twerk.

  Land of Bad (2024)

• It's me who's most likely to start twerking in public.

• Twerk it up, honey!

  I Feel Pretty (2018)

• - Uh, I believe the dance you're referring to is twerking.

  You People (2018)

Synonyms

G

to grind

vsto twerk

• NSFW

20 8.8

To move your hips against another person in a sexual way

uses thrusting hip and bottom shakes often alone and in a low squat

S

to shimmy

vsto twerk

11 7.7

To shake the body quickly from side to side as a dance move

produces vertical hip and bottom thrusts in a low squatting stance

B

to bump

vsto twerk

• Offensive

3 8.6

To dance by moving the hips forward in time with music

shakes hips and bottom with rhythmic thrusts in a low squat

P

to play booty

vsto twerk

• NSFW

9.9

To dance or move in a lively, playful way at a party

focuses on rhythmic hip and bottom thrusts rather than general playful dancing

How Vigorous

to twerk

• NSFW

13 9.4

to shake

750 1.0

to grind

• NSFW

20 8.8

to shimmy

11 7.7

to sway

80 2.4

Surface Forms

Etymology