my pleasure, m'am

1. A stew made from odds and ends of food. Also attrib.

2. (With capital initial.) Golf. An extra stroke awarded after a poor shot, not counted on the score card. colloq.
1949 P. Cummings Dict. Sports 275 Mulligan, Golf, a handicap of a free shot given after a player makes a bad one. 1952 Golf Digest May 7 ‘It's just a friendly match,’ he said. ‘Wanna take a mulligan?’ 1965 H. Graffis Esquire's World of Golf xii. 174 Magnanimously, the hustler will allow his prey a Mulligan off the tee now and then. 1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 7 Feb. 1/2 With millions watching on color television, Shepard took another poke—the extra chance golf duffers call a ‘Mulligan’—and connected solidly.


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So, Father, it seems we should capitalise the capital fellow!

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