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  • noun Plural form of mulligan.

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Examples

  • Everyone one of them took mulligans, which is hitting a bad shot over and playing the better result.

    On the BorderLine 2009

  • John Hohlen, a software engineer from Chesterfield, Mo., tackles that problem on ProTourFantasyGolf. com by allowing six "mulligans," or bonus substitutions, over a season in the game he designed.

    Tiger Roils Fake Golf, Too 2008

  • John Hohlen, a software engineer from Missouri, tackles that problem on ProTourFantasyGolf. com by allowing six "mulligans," or bonus substitutions, over a season in the game he designed.

    Imagining Tiger 2008

  • John Hohlen, a software engineer from Chesterfield, Missouri, tackles that problem on ProTourFantasyGolf. com by allowing six "mulligans," or bonus substitutions, over a season in the game he designed.

    Tiger even dominates the fake golf world lf Journal ADAM THOMPSON 2008

  • Scandal-clouded New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is no longer going to be Barack Obama's Secretary of Commerce, giving Obama a chance to call 'mulligans' on the whole 'There are no high profile gays and lesbians in my cabinet' thing.

    Queerty 2009

  • Teams vie for the national championship every week not just one month of the year--no excuses and no mulligans.

    Weston Gentry: Why College Football Fans Really Hate the BCS Weston Gentry 2011

  • Teams vie for the national championship every week not just one month of the year--no excuses and no mulligans.

    Weston Gentry: Why College Football Fans Really Hate the BCS Weston Gentry 2011

  • Teams vie for the national championship every week not just one month of the year--no excuses and no mulligans.

    Weston Gentry: Why College Football Fans Really Hate the BCS Weston Gentry 2011

  • Financial mulligans reward hedge funds and don't clean up the mess.

    Norb Vonnegut: The Mulligans of Hedgistan Norb Vonnegut 2010

  • But is it fair to give them such mulligans in a climate-controlled studio for a real-life shot hit into, say, St. Andrews gusts or Pebble Beach rainstorms?

    College choices part of the show at U.S. Army All-American Bowl 2010

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