OK, what is it? I just ran across this term in this morning’s paper in a column about youth culture.
Stripper dance.
ETA: AKA booty-popping.
It’s an obscene dance move that involves shaking your butt
sigh society is really going to hell in a handbasket
back in my day dancing was a wholesome activity
What they said. Do a google search for twerking videos and you can see hundreds of examples. It’s not that obscene if done with clothes on, it’s the frequent absence of clothing that makes it NSFW.
From what I gather from various online sources, it is a dance where the girl bends over, presenting her buttocks, either to a male partner or thin air, and then performs pelvic thrusts miming doggie-style sex.
OMG, I didn’t know what it meant until yesterday either. My wife mentioned it was added to some dictionary and I was like, “What the hell does it mean?”, and she walked away shaking her head and laughing. Then I asked my 14 year old son. He wouldn’t explain it to me either and so he and my wife had a good laugh about it at my expense again. So I got pissed and looked it up. My life isn’t better for knowing there’s an official term for that. But I enjoyed the research. 
Did you dance to that famous Rolling Stones song, “Hey, hey, you, you, get off of my lawn”? 
Square dancing? Scandalous!
Yesterday?
So where was this term before Miley Virus showed the world she possessed a vagina? And how is it different from Elvis’s hip-work?
For the OP, the Urban Dictionary online has most answers for current terms.
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A Brief History of Twerking.
You should take every post that PSXer makes with an incredibly huge grain of salt. (Like the size of a large boulder.)
Twerking is the most accurate method to tell whether you are old or not.
Go back in the house, and watch Matlock, Gramps.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d0e_1377639302
Make up your own mind.
I wouldn’t necessarily call that an example of twerking or booty popping done well. That’s just a bunch of people at a festival grinding on each other. You don’t have to be young to know what twerking is or even be able to do it. Madonna is 55.
Some of that page appears to be in English.
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I’m guessing you don’t frequently drop it like it’s hot, do you?
Not always. There’s also “wall twerking”. In this dance, the girl will do a handstand while facing the wall and leans against the wall with her feet. In this upside down position she will then shake her butt up and down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvwuS9ClRFc (SFW but it does obviously have some girls shaking their butts)