strip mall
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
Words nearby strip mall
strip club,
strip cropping,
strip farm,
strip joint,
strip lighting,
strip mall,
strip map,
strip mill,
strip mine,
strip out,
strip planting
Example sentences from the Web for strip mall
He went back for him the following day, stabbing him in a strip-mall parking lot.
Serial Killer’s Twisted Logic: Allegedly Murdered Homeless Victims as Community Service |Christine Pelisek |March 16, 2012 |DAILY BEASTNew Jersey evokes a more suburban, strip-mall variety of cattiness, with press-on nails in place of claws.