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  1. twerknoun

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

  2. twerknoun

    A fitful movement similar to a twitch or jerk.

  3. twerkverb

    To twitch or jerk.

  4. twerkverb

    To move the body in a sexually suggestive twisting or gyrating fashion.

  5. twerknoun

    An abrupt call, such as made by the California Quail.

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  1. twerk

    Twerking (; possibly from 'to work') is a type of dance that came out of the bounce music scene of New Orleans in the late 1980s. Individually performed chiefly but not exclusively by women, performers dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving throwing or thrusting their hips back or shaking their buttocks, often in a low squatting stance. Twerking is part of a larger set of characteristic moves unique to the New Orleans style of hip-hop known as "bounce". Moves include "mixing", "exercising", the "bend over", the "shoulder hustle", "clapping", "booty clapping", "booty poppin", and "the wild wood"—all recognized as booty shaking or bounce. Twerking is but one choreographic gesture within bounce. As a tradition shaped by local aid and pleasure clubs, block parties and second lines, the dance was central to "a historical situating of sissy bounce—bounce music as performed by artists from the New Orleans African-American community that [led to] a meteoric rise in popularity post-[Hurricane Katrina after 2005]." In the 90s, twerking had widespread appeal in black party culture throughout the hip-hop/rap region known as The Dirty South, including New Orleans, Memphis, Virginia Beach, Miami, Atlanta, and Houston. In 2013, it became the top "what is" search on the Google search engine following pop artist Miley Cyrus performing the dance at the MTV Video Music Awards.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of twerk in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of twerk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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