strip mall

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noun

a retail complex consisting of stores or restaurants in adjacent spaces in one long building, typically having a narrow parking area directly in front of the stores.

Origin of strip mall

First recorded in 1990–95

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Related Words for strip mall

arcade, plaza, mall, bazaar, emporium, fair, market, marketplace, mart, piazza, agora, galleria

Examples from the Web for strip mall

Contemporary Examples of strip mall

He went back for him the following day, stabbing him in a strip-mall parking lot.
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Christine Pelisek
March 16, 2012
New Jersey evokes a more suburban, strip-mall variety of cattiness, with press-on nails in place of claws.
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Rebecca Dana
March 1, 2010