"Twerk" has been added to Oxford Dictionaries Online — and the world can thank Miley Cyrus for making it happen. Quartz broke the news on Tuesday, announcing that the Oxford University Press, which ...

Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word "twerk" to its collection. The addition came after Miley Cyrus' widely discussed performance at the MTV Video ...

I hope you get as good of a laugh from this as I did. The Oxford Dictionary announced its latest update on Thursday. The dictionary has added almost 500 new words including, “twerk,” “hot mess,” ...

USA TODAY - If you haven't seen enough of Miley Cyrus twerking at Sunday's MTV VMAs, be forewarned - you might be seeing her picture next to the word "twerk" in a dictionary one day. Quartz reports ...

LONDON – Twerking, the rump-busting up-and-down dance move long beloved on America's hip-hop scene, has officially gone mainstream. It's got the English dictionary entry to prove it. Britain's Oxford ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Hey, twerk. You’re having a pretty ...

Though twerking has been around for decades, slowly building in popularity as the dance bounced across the southern U.S. and into mainstream hip hop, Miley Cyrus's performance at the VMAs led many ...

Twerking has been having a moment as of late (or, some might say, a last dance), and, to many, Miley Cyrus's VMA twerk-a-thon was the dance technique's giant coming out (of a bear) party. The ...

Death Grips, we’re gonna let you finish, but Miley Cyrus has the best demonstration of how success in the music hype cycle has very little do with actual music of ALL TIME. Or at least summer 2013.