We can't run this bar without her. Not, and raise two kids
The following sentence is taken from the series Shameless.US.S06E09, min. 7:00,
We can't run this bar without her. Not, and raise two kids.
I don't think such an use of not is described in any conventiona dictionary, is it?
Solution 1:
I've just watched that scene in a video. Intonation and parsing is important.
The following is a quick exchange between two characters. Note there is zero pause between the sentences of the last line, and there is no pause after the not. So it is most natural not to insert a comma after the not of the sentence.
"He's with Immigration?"
"I had no idea. I didn't see his badge."
Shit, we can't run this bar without her. Not and raise two kids.
Link to a script
Not and raise two kids
has no pause in it, and it is an ellipsis of
[We can] Not [run this bar without her] and raise two kids.
The exchange is viewable (when the link works, and whether it does is not up to me) on this video of the episode at 5:49 of the episode itself (watching it from 5:15 or 5:30 gives even more context.)
Solution 2:
I would say it is an example of
Used as a short substitute for a negative clause.
‘maybe I'll regret it, but I hope not’
‘‘Don't you keep in touch?’ ‘I'm afraid not’’
‘they wouldn't know if I was telling the truth or not’
(from Oxford Dictionaries). They don't give an example with this structure, but I think the definition still applies.
Some examples which are more like yours (made up by me, not from a source):
I can't carry it. Not without help.
I'm not going to face him! Not for all the tea in China!
Q: Are you coming out tonight? A: Not unless I get all my work done.
Solution 3:
This looks like an example of ellipsis. The Wikipedia article on ellipsis (linguistics) notes the following (pulled from a couple of places in the article):
In linguistics, ellipsis (from the Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, "omission") or an elliptical construction is the omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements.
Gapping occurs in coordinate structures. Redundant material that is present in the immediately preceding clause can be "gapped". This gapped material usually contains a finite verb. Canonical cases have a true "gap" insofar as a remnant appears to the left and to the right of the elided material.
- John can play the guitar, and Mary can play the violin.
Your example can be understood in the same way:
- We can't run this bar without her. Not run this bar , and raise two kids.
Solution 4:
We can't do X. Not and do Y.
eg: We can't drive to the beach today. Not and avoid sunburns.
We can't fly to the moon. Not and fly to Venus on one tank of fuel.
Is a fairly common sentence structure in spoken English. When written it is awkward. It means you can't do X because Y is an impediment.
Solution 5:
I think that the second part explains the first:
We can't run this bar without her. [Of course we can. I meant we can] Not [do both run this bar without her] and raise two kids.
(Other answers have explained how the first part is inserted into the second part. But I think it's important to explain what the outcome is, the why. That, as said, the second explains the first.)