Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to twerk
Participle: twerked
Gerund: twerking
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | twerk |
| you | twerk |
| he;she;it | twerks |
| we | twerk |
| you | twerk |
| they | twerk |
Perfect
| I | have twerked |
| you | have twerked |
| he;she;it | has twerked |
| we | have twerked |
| you | have twerked |
| they | have twerked |
Past
| I | twerked |
| you | twerked |
| he;she;it | twerked |
| we | twerked |
| you | twerked |
| they | twerked |
Pluperfect
| I | had twerked |
| you | had twerked |
| he;she;it | had twerked |
| we | had twerked |
| you | had twerked |
| they | had twerked |
Future
| I | will twerk |
| you | will twerk |
| he;she;it | will twerk |
| we | will twerk |
| you | will twerk |
| they | will twerk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have twerked |
| you | will have twerked |
| he;she;it | will have twerked |
| we | will have twerked |
| you | will have twerked |
| they | will have twerked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | twerk |
| you | twerk |
| he;she;it | twerk |
| we | twerk |
| you | twerk |
| they | twerk |
Perfect
| I | have twerked |
| you | have twerked |
| he;she;it | have twerked |
| we | have twerked |
| you | have twerked |
| they | have twerked |
Imperfect
| I | twerked |
| you | twerked |
| he;she;it | twerked |
| we | twerked |
| you | twerked |
| they | twerked |
Pluperfect
| I | had twerked |
| you | had twerked |
| he;she;it | had twerked |
| we | had twerked |
| you | had twerked |
| they | had twerked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would twerk |
| you | would twerk |
| he;she;it | would twerk |
| we | would twerk |
| you | would twerk |
| they | would twerk |
Perfect
| I | would have twerked |
| you | would have twerked |
| he;she;it | would have twerked |
| we | would have twerked |
| you | would have twerked |
| they | would have twerked |
Imperative
| you | twerk |
| we | Let's twerk |
| you | twerk |
Verbs conjugated like 'twerk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'twerk'
tweak,
clerk,
ferk,
jerk,
merk,
perk,
querk,
smerk,
snerk,
teek,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Blend of twitch + jerk. The "sexually-provocative dance" sense was particularly popularized since c. 2000 by hip-hop from the United States of America, and again in 2013 by singer Miley Cyrus.
Verbs referencing "twerk"
German, old spelling
twerken, Russian
твёркать, Russian
тверкать.
Sample Sentences
-
Gaea then stood up over me and turned so that her butt was facing me. She then had the nerve to start twerking. [2005, Euftis Emery, Off the Chain, →ISBN, page 73:]
-
"Shortie really knows how to twerk it don't she?" Marcus boasted, while still recording. [2006, Lawrence Christopher, Ghettoway Weekend, →ISBN, page 96:]
-
Let me see what ya twerkin with / Look at those hips [2006, “SexyBack”, in FutureSex/LoveSounds, performed by Justin Timberlake ft. Timbaland:]
-
Twerking, as it is known in the hip-hop community, is a hard-hitting, rump-shaking dance move that celebrities including Beyonce and Miley Cyrus have been known to bust out, but it has also gotten a group of San Diego high school students suspended. […] Mostly female students in tops and leggings were shown twerking in the school yard, twerking with each other and even twerking upside down. [2013 May 3, Nichole Smith, “High School Students Suspended for Twerking”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2026:]
-
[…] 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. [1985, Criena Rohan, Down by the Docks, page 151:]
-
He twerked an eyebrow at his wife. [2005, Florence Hall Abssi, The Call, page 613:]