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/mˈəlɪgən stu/ Listen

noun

mulligan stew, mulligan n.

A stew made typically of meat, vegetables, and any conveniently available ingredients; also, an Irish version of burgoo.

Synonyms: Irish burgoo.

(Golf) In informal and friendly games of golf, a permission to take another stroke without counting the previous stroke against the score, when a stroke was poorly played; a free stroke; as, to take a mulligan.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... supper long for Muir. It was a good supper—a mulligan stew of mallard duck, with biscuits and coffee. Stickeen romped into camp about ten o'clock and his new master ...

— Alaska Days with John Muir • Samual Hall Young

... father went to the Confederate War. He joined the Holcombe Legion of Union County and they went immediately to Charleston. They drilled near the village of Santuc in what was then called Mulligan's Old Field, now owned by Rion Jeter. This was the only mustering ground in our part of the county. The soldiers drilled once a week, and for the 'general muster, all of the companies from Sedalia and Cross Keys come there once a month. During the summer time they had what they called general ...

— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... I've one eye in mournin', That's becaze I disputed his right, To tak' and spind all my week's earnin's At Tim Mulligan's wake, Sunday night. ...

— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... "Jemmy Mulligan," he said, to a poor-looking man, "go home to your family. We don't intend to take harsh measures with you, Jemmy; and you needn't come here again till we send ...

— The Tithe-Proctor - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

... said she, With just the faintest sigh, "I've sinse enough to see you've come, But what's the reason why?" "To ax—" and once again the tongue Forbore its sweets to tell, "To ax—if Mrs. Mulligan, Has any pigs ...

— Poems Teachers Ask For • Various

... Mulligan! he it quite too delightfully good-natured, don't you know;" i.e., "A great goose who gushes, and fancies ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 99, July 12, 1890 • Various