Usually means: Do-over in golf, no penalty.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. mulligan: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Mulligan, mulligan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mulligan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mulligan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mulligan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mulligan, mulligan: Wordnik
  7. Mulligan, mulligan: Wiktionary
  8. mulligan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. mulligan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mulligan: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. mulligan: Dictionary.com
  12. mulligan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Mulligan (TV series), Mulligan (games), Mulligan (surname), Mulligan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. mulligan: Rhymezone
  15. mulligan: Free Dictionary
  16. mulligan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Mulligan: The Word Detective
  18. Mulligan: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mulligan: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mulligan: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mulligan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mulligan: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. mulligan: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mulligan)

noun:  (golf) An unpenalized chance to re-take a stroke that went awry.
noun:  (collectible card games) An opportunity (sometimes penalized) for a player to reshuffle their cards and draw a new initial hand at the beginning of a game.
noun:  (by extension) A second chance.
noun:  A surname from Irish.
noun:  Ellipsis of mulligan stew. [A stew made of whatever ingredients are handy and appropriate for stew, rather than of specific ingredients.]

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