strip mall
20
3.0
- noun
- /strɪp mɔl/
- US
:
parque comercial (EE. UU.)
- The strip mall across the street features a grocery store, a coffee shop, and a bakery.
We walked across the street to the strip mall where the restaurant was.
- We walked across the street to the strip mall where the restaurant was.
- Guess it was kind of like a strip mall, but also had some like a little bit of a recycling center.
- We want more green spaces, but let's take abandoned strip malls and actually turn them into townhomes and streamline the redevelopment of this process.
- You drive by these strip malls and how depressing they are.
- This is a little bit of Cajun and barbecue and a strip mall in Lewisville, TX.
- We get in this huge desktop at the strip bar in the strip mall on the camera.
- And it was and it's just like in a random strip mall.
- And it's always like, you know, at a, we're opening this strip mall.
- The people that made the compass algorithm who had were just three people in a strip mall, right?
- And you're sitting there to sharing problems and sharing joy, you know, in a strip mall over there.
- And he lands in the Twin Pines Ranch because, as we know, all good farmland becomes strip malls, all right, In modern times.
- And if you've seen the Wolf of Wall Street, that's where he that strip mall brokerage firm, which wasn't in a strip mall, but that was where Jordan Belfort got his start.
- I was all over the place and I started to realize, God, Topeka looks just like Milwaukee looks just like because they're all strip malls.
Examples
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We walked across the street to the strip mall where the restaurant was.
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A U.S. Mail carrier's truck pulls into the parking lot of a strip mall.
Fiction book (2001) -
It's in the parking lot behind the strip mall.
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See that strip mall down there?
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The interview dinner was at a restaurant in a strip mall outside of town.
Academic text (2017) -
The grand opening of a small strip mall marked noticeable progress in town.
Academic text (2011) -
The McDonald's stood in the middle of a suburban strip mall parking lot.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sharon and Robby are rolling to a stop in a strip mall parking lot, exiting their car.
Fiction book (2001) -
Everywhere she drove, she looked in the parking lots of roadhouses, cafes, and strip malls.
Fiction book (1994) -
There's a grocery store and strip mall where the bus stops at the corner of El Camino and La Costa.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
545
1.0
A large indoor building with many shops and places to eat
81
3.5
A group of shops and restaurants with parking and outdoor space
62
1.0
A large building or outdoor area with many shops and restaurants
38
1.6
A large building with many shops and places to eat
1
5.2
A large covered space with shops and restaurants and often a glass roof
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Morphology
strip + mall
The meaning 'a row of stores with parking in front' is directly and compositionally derived from 'strip' (a long, narrow piece of land) + 'mall' (a shopping center): together they denote a narrow shopping area along a road. This is a straightforward, cross-linguistically common compound pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Strip mall comes from two simple images: a long, narrow strip of shops and mall, a 'shopping area'. That's why it means 'a row of stores with a parking lot in front along a road'.