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mulligan N. Amer.|ˈmʌlɪgən|
[Apparently f. a proper name.]
1. A stew made from odds and ends of food. Also attrib.
1904Yukon Midnight Sun (Dawson, Yukon Territory) 10 Jan. 3/4 All the roadhouses served big Christmas dinners and most of them made a mulligan. 1913Collier's 11 Jan. 16/2, I suppose you never have eaten any ‘Mulligan’... The recipe calls for canned Willie, spuds, onions, canned tomatoes, all mixed up together. 1914Sat. Even. Post 4 Apr. 10/1 It was a mulligan. Everything was in that stew—meat, potatoes, onions, bread—an appetizing hodgepodge. 1918C. Sandburg Cornhuskers 80 Then they go to the bunk cars and eat mulligan and prune sauce. 1926J. Black You can't Win vii. 83 There was a grand jungle by a small clean river where they..cooked their mulligans. Ibid. xv. 198 He's crazy as a bed bug and the best ‘mulligan’ maker on the road. 1955R. P. Hobson Nothing too Good for Cowboy 138 That's what's good for me, a great beeg vegetable mulligan with feesh in it. 1966H. Marriott Cariboo Cowboy ii. 35 Lots of mulligan stew with beef, carrots and onions. 1971‘R. Macdonald’ Underground Man xix. 135 A number of plywood tables had been set up on trestles. A hundred or more men were seated at them, eating mulligan stew.
2. (With capital initial.) Golf. An extra stroke awarded after a poor shot, not counted on the score card. colloq.
1949P. Cummings Dict. Sports 275 Mulligan, Golf, a handicap of a free shot given after a player makes a bad one. 1952Golf Digest May 7 ‘It's just a friendly match,’ he said. ‘Wanna take a mulligan?’ 1965H. Graffis Esquire's World of Golf xii. 174 Magnanimously, the hustler will allow his prey a Mulligan off the tee now and then. 1971Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 Feb. 1/2 With millions watching on color television, Shepard took another poke—the extra chance golf duffers call a ‘Mulligan’—and connected solidly. |