mulligan stew

• Mulligan stew, mulligan-stew

From Mulligan (“Irish surname”); compare Irish stew.

mulligan stew (countable and uncountable, plural mulligan stews)

1. A stew made of whatever ingredients are handy and appropriate for stew, rather than of specific ingredients.

   Synonyms: hobo stew, Irish stew

   • 1916 April, Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

     He, who had eaten the leavings from firemen’s pails in round-houses and “scoffed” mulligan-stews at water-tanks, had learned thoroughly the worth of money.