Miley Cyrus 'Twerk' Dance Move Makes Dictionary

The term 'twerk' used to describe a dance move recently used by Miley Cyrus at the MTV awards has made the Oxford dictionary.

   

Twerking, the term most recently used to describe Miley Cyrus' lewd bump and grind move at the MTV awards, has made it into the Oxford dictionary.

For the unenlightened, it is defined as "The twerk, v.: dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance."
It is among a number of new words that have been included in the latest revision of Oxford Dictionaries online.
Other terms include "selfie" for a camera-phone self-portrait, "digital detox" for time spent offline and "click and collect", the shopping phrase.
Katherine Connor Martin, from Oxford Dictionaries Online, said "twerk" was around 20 years old and seemed to have been coined as part of the "bounce" hip-hop scene in the United States.
"By last year, it had generated enough currency to be added to our new words watch list, and by this spring, we had enough evidence of usage frequency in a breadth of sources to consider adding it to our dictionaries of current English," she said.