mulligan

Definition

Ellipsis of mulligan stew.

Etymology

Attested since the 1930s in the sense “chance to re-take a golf stroke”; probably from the name Mulligan, after a golfer who replayed a stroke. See Wikipedia for more information.

Example Sentences

• ""I've got a mulligan on the stove upstairs," grinned Sloan, getting out of his chair."
• "Another afternoon Dove jungled up with four others beside a creek.[…] A couple of the boys got a mulligan going. Dove lay naked in the creek smoking a cigarette and smelling the mulligan."
• "When we did, nobody was there, but we found two empty sleeping bags and some mulligan in a pot on a stove."