Citations:twerkathon

English citations of twerkathon

Noun: "(slang) an energetic display of twerking, particularly to an audience"

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• 2013, Lauren Dwyer, "Songs of the Summer", The Xavierite (Saint Xavier University, Chicago, IL), 4 September 2013, page 8:

  Whether or not your agree with Miley's risque new attitude or her twerkathons, “We Can't Stop” turned out to be a pretty catchy song and it will have us talking about her for awhile.^[sic]

• 2013, Jake Folsom, "Scandinavian Pop", Washington Square News (New York University), 17 September 2013, page 2:

  In America, we like to blame pop for the ills in society – just look at the savage attacks critics have launched against Britney Spears' recent “Work Bitch,” or Miley Cyrus' infamous twerkathon.

• 2013, Jake Folsom, "Bangerz", Washington Square News (New York University), 23 September 2013, page 2:

  While Miley Cyrus continues to stir the pot with twerkathons and “Wrecking Ball,” it can be easy to forget she actually has an album coming out.

• 2013, Matthew Walter, "Celebrities create negative influence", The Corral (Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield, MO), 2 October 2013, page 19:

  More than a month removed from Miley Cyrus's “twerkathon” at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, it's hard to get the painful image out of my mind.

• 2014, Olia Javidi, quoted in Sophia Swedback, "Creature Feature", The Scribe (Francis Parker School, San Diego, CA), October 2014, page 12:

  Students who are late to class too often will have to participate in a public twerkathon.

• 2015, Mike Prevatt & Spencer Patterson, "10 Years of Beauty Bar", Las Vegas Weekly, 4 June 2015, page 19:

  There was a twerkathon onstage, inciting one of the loudest crowd reactions we've experienced in our four years at Beauty Bar.

• 2016, Sylvia Patterson, I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music, page 7:

  From a world of 'bowler heads' to a planet-sized twerkathon of 'bum selfies'?

• 2019, Boulé Whytelaw III, Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World . . . While Black, unnumbered page:

  There is absolutely nowhere better in the solar system to attain a quality education on sex and sexual politics than the mighty twerkathon that is this esteemed establishment.

• 2019, Dánica Coto, "Puerto Ricans anxious for new leader amid political crisis", Aruba Today, 30 July 2019, page A12:

  Rosselló resigned following nearly two weeks of daily protests in which hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans took to the streets, mounted horses and jetskis, organized a twerkathon and came up with other creative ways to demand his ouster.

• 2023, Nathanael Lessore, Steady for This, unnumbered page:

  Or maybe I do ... I start twerking in the reflection, just to see what it looks like. My twerkathon accelerates, I'm picturing a space-hopper race between my thighs.