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.