Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bruise n.

[var. on damage n. (1)]

(US) a bill, which ‘hurts’.

[US]J. O’Hara ‘Give and Take’ in New Yorker 13 Feb. 17/1: [E]very time a check came around, Joey recognized somebody that he thought he could put the touch on. So he’d get up and leave me with the bruise.