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Word entry · 8 letters

mulligan

Best crossword clue

"Golf do-over"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈmʌlɪɡən/Part of speech nounSorted agillmnuStarts with MEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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

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