Merriam-Webster Tries to Explain Cocaine-Related Phrase ‘Key Bump’ After Madison Cawthorn Remarks Trend
made headlines for making claims about orgies and drug use in Washington, and using the phrase “key bump,” Merriam-Webster has weighed in.“People are talking about ‘key bumps,’ and so we have a duty to tell you some things about this,” Merriam-Webster tweeted Wednesday, beginning a Twitter chain looking into what Cawthorn might have meant by the two words.People are talking about ‘key bumps,’ and so we have a duty to tell you some things about this.“A ‘bump,’ in this context, may be defined as ‘a small quantity of an illicit drug when inhaled in powdered form at one time,'” Merriam-Webster wrote in another tweet.