Definition of strip mall
: a long usually one-story building or group of buildings housing several adjacent retail stores or service establishments
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Bosch and his team spend their time doing phone dumps, poring through financial records, searching homes and offices and then searching them again, and endlessly, fruitlessly tailing suspects through the Southern California streets and strip malls.
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TERI Inspired Resale is tucked in the corner of a strip mall in Oceanside.
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The shootout, captured on video, occurred around 9:40 p.m. in the parking lot of a strip mall in the 3100 block of Loyola Drive.
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Vinci shot and killed Hanley, a California resident, outside a strip mall in the 1200 block of Southeast 7th Avenue on Feb. 12, police said.
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Among Richmond’s 800 restaurants, 400 serve Asian food, with 220 of them located within strip malls in a three-block radius along Alexandra Road.
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Restaurant choices were limited and always crowded, the roads were full of potholes, and nondescript apartment buildings and strip malls seemed to be on steroids.
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Hours later, the authorities said, an old military device donated to a Goodwill store went off in an employee’s hands at a strip mall south of downtown, injuring a man in his 30s and setting off another scare in a city on edge.
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The strip mall — which also has a tea house, shoe store, pizza shop and mobile phone retailer — is located at a busy intersection in the city of 175,000 people about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.
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First Known Use of strip mall
1977
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Definition of strip mall for English Language Learners
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: a long building that is divided into separate shops which usually have outside entrances and which share a parking lot
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