mulligan
Definitions
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- noun In golf, an unpenalized chance to re-take a stroke that went awry.
- noun A second chance.
- noun Mulligan stew.
Examples
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It's true, to use a golf analogy, it's like they shanked the ball with Ago, called a mulligan, and hit a 300-yard drive before anyone could linger on the initial embarrassment.
Rachel Thebault: The 'Do-Over!': Reinventing Your Failing Business, HuffPost Business, June 25, 2009
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In golf it's called a "mulligan" - when your first shot veers off wildly into the woods, you tee up another ball and swing again.
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For on St. Partick's Feast, with everyone wearin' the green, there's gaity in the air. So why not have a holiday meal of Mulligan stew?
'Mulligan Stew for St. Patrick,' Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 17, 1959
Note
The golf sense seems to come from he name of David. B. Mulligan, a Canadian golfer, who is said to have coined the term in the 1930s. The stew sense seems to come from the surname Mulligan.
