Definition of "twerp" [twerp]

• Slang A person regarded as insignificant and contemptible. (noun)

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• "If you are not careful this Skywalker twerp is going to hand you your head soon."
• "I hope this twerp is leaving brown and yellow stains all over the walls and where-ever he’s seated."
• "Republicans on the Hill, on the radio and on cable news seemed to have forgotten how ridiculous George W. Bush looked when he performed his pee-pants-dance in public; acting like a petulant, entitled twerp who could, at any moment, very nearly regress into an actual terrible-twos tantrum, only to pull himself back at the last second and find some restraint just before reflexively dropping to the ground in a raging tempest of elbows, fists and teeth."