What's
a mulligan? A mulligan is a do-over. A second chance to get something
right.
Mulligan was originally a golfing term. Mulligans aren't legal – if you badly blow a
golf shot, you're supposed to take the penalty (hitting the next shot
from the sand pit or high grass, for example, if your mistake landed
you there, or relocating the ball and taking a one-stroke penalty).
But in a friendly game of golf with buddies, some people allow a few
mulligans.
The
word mulligan can be used outside of golf and even outside of
sports. In the card games “Magic: the Gathering” or “Pokemon,”
in certain situations players can use a mulligan rule to get out of
really bad hands or other problems. We can call for a mulligan with
friends and family if we make a mistake in our ordinary lives, too.
How
can you use a do-over today?
By
the way...
Apparently,
nobody really knows how the word mulligan got started.
Presumably some guy with the last name Mulligan liked to “cheat” at golf and
got his friends to go along with it. There are several somebodies
linked to the origin of the word—but they can't all be true, so I
am content to just not know!
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