bump supper

'Speak on,' said I with more encouragement than a Brahman temple dancer at a Brown Shirt's bump supper.

I did not drink, and for such festivities as Bump Suppers celebrating success on the river by the College eight I had no taste.

It reminded me of the night at Oxford when, then but a lad of eighteen, he sang 'Let's All Go Down the Strand' after a bump supper, standing the while up to his knees in the college fountain.

When a college's boat achieves a certain number of bumps, the undergraduates are permitted a bump supper, at which those so inclined get inordinately drunk and smash the place up - thus prompting Evelyn Waugh's immortal phrase about the English upper classes baying for the sound of broken glass.