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  • None from Kelly; he doesn't fist-bump unless it's the real thing.

    Mark Kelly preps for space launch 2011

  • “I got your back,” Nick assured her, giving her the nerd fist-bump.

    The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    'The Office' recap: Mommy issues | EW.com 2009

  • 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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