mulligan
/ˈmʌlɪɡən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""I've got a mulligan on the stove upstairs," grinned Sloan, getting out of his chair."
- "Another afternoon Dove jungled up with four others beside a creek.[…] A couple of the boys got a mulligan going. Dove lay naked in the creek smoking a cigarette and smelling the mulligan."
- "When we did, nobody was there, but we found two empty sleeping bags and some mulligan in a pot on a stove."
- "If you lose your drive in the water, take a mulligan and try again."
- "Pokemon has a mulligan rule: if you have no Pokemon in your opening hand, you show it to your opponent and redraw. You may also take a mulligan, I believe, if your opening hand has no basic power cards."
- "April 1997 introduced the modern 'Paris mulligan' rule; previously a mulligan required either all land or no land in the hand and could be taken only once, now the mulligan can be taken as many times as desired with any hand, but reduces starting hand size by one each time the mulligan is taken."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Ó Maolagáin