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strip mall

strip mall noun: a shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.

strip mall: a shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors,...
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Noun

strip mall (plural strip malls)

  1. (Canada, US) A shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.
    • April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/
      Fightville resembles a real-life Foot Fist Way, in that much of the action takes place within the cinder-block walls of a strip-mall gym, this one located next to a Piggly Wiggly in Lafayette, Louisiana.
    • The karate school where she took tai chi was in a strip mall near the Three Rivers depot. There's a convenience store, a bike shop, Happy Joy Chinese, and Caputo's Martial Arts. I got out, walked to the door, opened it a crack. Twenty or so little kids in karate suits stood with their hands clasped...2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.9-10

Forms of strip mall

pluralstrip malls

Questions about strip mall

What does strip mall mean?
Strip mall means a shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.
What part of speech is strip mall?
Strip mall is a noun.
What is the plural of strip mall?
The plural of strip mall is strip malls.

Words near strip mall in the dictionary

  1. strip joints
  2. strip light
  3. strip lighting
  4. strip loin
  5. strip loins
  6. strip mall
  7. strip malls
  8. strip map
  9. strip me naked
  10. strip mine
  11. strip mines

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