1898 Helena (Montana) Independent 19 May 2/1 Sergeant Johnson, head cook of Company L, is said to be the best compounder of Mulligan stew in the entire regiment.

1899 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 673 Git the divvil out of there, lad, and here's the price of a mulligan.

1914 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Apr. 10/1 It was a mulligan. Everything was in that stew—meat, potatoes, onions, bread—an appetizing hodgepodge.

1926 J. Black You can't Win vii. 83 There was a grand jungle by a small clean river where they..cooked their mulligans.

1926 J. Black You can't Win xv. 198 He's crazy as a bed bug and the best ‘mulligan’ maker on the road.

1955 R. P. Hobson Nothing too Good for Cowboy 138 That's what's good for me, a great beeg vegetable mulligan with feesh in it.

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.

1993 Toronto Star 16 July a25/1 Labor mobility is severely restricted by a provincial Mulligan stew of professional and trades certification requirements.

2010 J. Mondy Time to lay By v. 34 He always headed first for the nearest jungle camp, where he could probably find other tramps and where he could..cook his mulligan stew.

1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 309/2 Mulligan battery, the cook wagon.

1938 S. H. Holbrook Holy Old Mackinaw (1939) 262 Mulligan car, railroad car where midday lunch is served.

1942 R. L. Haig-Brown Timber Gloss. 404 Crummy (see also ‘Gut Wagon’ or ‘Mulligan Wagon’; all three are in common use), a box car or an old caboose converted to passenger carrying by the addition of a few wooden benches, and used to carry the men to and from work.

1950 Western Folklore 9 119 Mulligan wagon, The truck, flatcar, or any other means of transportation to and from work.

1958 W. F. McCulloch Woods Words 119 At one time hot noon meals were brought out to the men in the woods. A specially fitted railroad car was used for this purpose, known as a mulligan, from the mulligan or soup which it carried. Later the men were hauled to camp instad of taking the meal to the men at noon, and mulligan became any crew carrier.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 134 In the early days of logging, the noon meals were taken out to the men in the woods in a special car called the mulligan... Later the term was applied to the caboose or to any car that transported men from the woods to the cookhouse.

2010 S. Rambeau Georgetown vii. 109 The small white car directly behind the engine is a ‘Mulligan’ car, a specially built refrigerator car..used to bring perishable goods,..usually supplying the logging camp cooks.

1936 Big Springs (Texas) Daily Herald 5 May 4/5 Another McIntyre-ism is the use of the ‘mulligan’—links-ology for a second shot employed after a previously dubbed shot.

1938 Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune 16 Apr. 6/5 A ‘mulligan’ is a golfing handicap which allows a golfer to re-play any one tee shot he chooses to.

1947 Washington Post 18 May (Sports section) 8/7 General Eisenhower got away from the first tee gracefully on his second shot, taking advantage of the rule of ‘Mulligans’, to smite one far down the middle after hooking his first shot into the trees.

1952 Golf Digest May 7 ‘It's just a friendly match’, he said. ‘Wanna take a mulligan?’

1965 H. Graffis Esquire's World of Golf xii. 174 Magnanimously, the hustler will allow his prey a Mulligan off the tee now and then.

1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 269 Mulligan is a late 1920s term for a second drive from the first tee, which some friendly amateurs grant each other if a first drive is a bad shot, discounting that first one.

1990 Times 18 Jan. 43/7 There were smiles all round as someone offered Lyle ‘a mulligan’—another go.

2011 B. Mallon & R. Jerris Hist. Dict. Golf 197 Many club players will allow a player on the first tee to hit a second tee ball, choosing the better of the two shots, and this is termed a ‘mulligan’.