“Twerking” has been included in the latest revision of the Oxford Dictionaries Online

From www.itv.com –  Read ‘Twerking’ dances its way into the Oxford dictionary latest on ITV News.   “Twerking”, the raunchy dance made famous by Miley Cyrus, has been included in the latest revision of the Oxford Dictionaries Online.Cyrus brought the move to many people’s attention in her We Can’t Stop music video and upped the ante during recent her performance with Robin Thicke at the VMA Awards.

But Oxford Dictionaries Online spokeswoman Katherine Connor Martin said the word “twerk” was around 20 years old and seemed to have been coined as part of the “bounce” hip-hop scene in the US.