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None from Kelly; he doesn't fist-bump unless it's the real thing.
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“I got your back,” Nick assured her, giving her the nerd fist-bump.
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011
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I was trying to casually fist-bump Lucy in the face but missed and hit my elbow on the cupholder.... resulting in a pretty bad skinned elbow.
Natalie Fitts: Sister, Sister: Thanksgiving Natalie Fitts 2011
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One of his most famous and hot-button illustrations remains his 2008 New Yorker cover "The Politics of Fear" left, in which Barack and Michelle Obama sport telltale trappings of would-be "radicalism" as they fist-bump.
IMAGE OF THE DAY: New Yorker cover artist sends Spider-Man to the hospital Michael Cavna 2011
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Foregoing his usual, first at-bat-in-a-game gesture where he shows the opposing manager respect by way of a distant fist-bump, there were no salutations when he led off the bottom of the first inning.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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I was trying to casually fist-bump Lucy in the face but missed and hit my elbow on the cupholder.... resulting in a pretty bad skinned elbow.
Natalie Fitts: Sister, Sister: Thanksgiving Natalie Fitts 2011
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A fist-bump to Samuel B. Garber of Chicago, who came closest to guessing the closing yield on 30-year Treasurys on Wednesday would be 4.265%.
Crystal Ball 2011
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Foregoing his usual, first at-bat-in-a-game gesture where he shows the opposing manager respect by way of a distant fist-bump, there were no salutations when he led off the bottom of the first inning.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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The Dunderheads immediately turned on Michael (except Kevin, who went for a fist-bump), but Michael responded with one of his rare but perfect little monologues.
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Doing so smacks of special pleading, a fist-bump to the Sisterhood.
Opening the Book of American Art Eric Gibson 2012
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