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what does "a bump of the night"mean? At the bar Abra waited for her drink orders and chatted with her favorite village character. Short, stocky, with a monk’s ring of wispy white hair, Stoney Tribbet worked on his second beer and a bump of the night. Stoney rarely missed a Friday night at the pub. He claimed he liked the music, and the pretty girls. He’d be eighty-two that summer, and he’d spent every year of it— except for a stint in the army in Korea—in Whiskey Beach.
Jun 2, 2015 12:28 PM
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Might it mean 'dance'? He is working on 'his second beer and bump of the night' i.e. his second drink and second turn on the dancefloor? Just a guess.
June 2, 2015
thank you so much
June 3, 2015
My guess was wrong. Having read the second example in your comment, I checked a dictionary. Apparently a 'bump' is a shot of hard liquor. He is probably drinking a glass of beer alongside a small glass of whiskey.
June 2, 2015
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