Definitions
A second chance or replayed shot, especially in golf.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“"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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Golf do-over”8 letters
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