werk

American  

[wurk] / wɜrk /

verb

Slang.

werked, werking

1. to perform or express oneself with exceptional skill, confidence, and style (often used in exclamations to cheer someone on, such as "werk that outfit!").

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Example Sentences

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werk werked werking

Halili responded, "I love you more," but said she was "in Vegas tryna werk."

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2025

“I feel like we’ve been fed how fierce New York queens are for so long,” adds Luzon, who was a New Yorker herself when she first shantayed into the werk room a decade ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2021

Then retreeved there crool hats and went bak to werk, slaping hands, as if what they had done was gud, and cul, and had made them glad.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017

RAMPLING: I wurnt ewe two to werk together.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2010

I want to go back to werk in the bakery and not rite progris progress reports any more.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

They werked and werked until soon a hole forest is gone.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2017

He said Charlie we werked on this for a long time but only on animils like Algernon.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Later en while ah wuz a gull ah werked fuh de Swilleys an wuz partly raised on dey plantation.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by Work Projects Administration

O'er theemes of depest thogt her braine she werked, Nor ever any knoty problemme sherked.

From The Re-echo Club by Wells, Carolyn

Miz Cracker is a writer and drag queen living and werking in Harlem, New York.

From Slate ● May 16, 2018

I askd her where was Hilda and she said Hilda wasnt werking in that part of the hospitil no more.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes