Normally you get an awkward boner when standing next to the hottest girl ever, but your girlfriend is right next to you. The boner ends up sprouting from a little sapling, and turns into a huge ass tree just so everyone can see it.
When one clutches their hand into a loose fist as if holding a rolled up piece of paper, and shakes it back and forth in front of someone's crotch. This will make the person feel very awkward, at which point you will have to explain your actions to them in the following way. "See. . . a monkey is jacking you off . .. thats why its awkward!"
When you have to pretend to feel sorry for someone, but you really don't, so you just give them the most awkward, non-comforting shoulder pat in the world.
"Joey told me he just broke up with his girlfriend. I always hated her, so I just gave him the Awkward Shoulder Pat."
A shortish corridor, usually dark, where a group of friends hang out for a chat waiting for someone to enter. When the victim enters, the congregation suddenly quietens and either looks at them or unsubtly avoids eye contact. The ritual is complete when the victim exits the corridor and the group begins to laugh unbelievably loudly. Possibly, legend has it, they chant 'awkward'.
A game played with an imaginary ball and raquets between two friends at a nightclub when the club is underperforming. Players attempt to piss off as many other patrons of the nightclub as possible by invading their personal space in order to perform overly elaborate shots.
Guy 1: "Man this place is dead"
Guy 2: "Time to get on the awkward tennis"
Guy 1: "Fuck yeah!"