strip mall

noun

: a long usually one-story building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments

Examples of strip mall in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Footage shared by the news stations showed a police presence in the parking lot of the strip mall with police tape used to cordon off the scene. — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026

Debris scattered cars like toys in front of the strip mall along Milam Dairy Road at Northwest 28th Street, and ripped into the front of the building like shrapnel. — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2026

Arriving officers found a man in the parking lot of a nearby strip mall. — Kansas City Star, 31 Aug. 2026

It was supposed to replace slums and blight and create new buildings, but the North End got a strip mall, cinderblock buildings and nothing. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for strip mall

• aldol
• armhole
• atoll
• awol
• backhaul
• banal
• baseball
• befall
• cabal
• catchall
• cecal
• centrale