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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Burn buildings for the fire department, including apartment and strip mall models.
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Somewhere quiet, past the I-95 overpass and the strip malls on Aramingo, behind the hulking warehouses, in a grassy, open field by the river.
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Nephew's, in a strip mall on Metairie Avenue, is a bit hard to find.
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Somewhere between the boring chains and strip malls, Grapevine has a few genuinely original restaurants.
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Kato, Yao’s 27-seat tasting menu restaurant smooshed into the corner of a strip mall on Santa Monica, was originally supposed to be a lu rou fan joint.
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Gillock said the area is already attracting new businesses, such as the strip mall already being built.
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The impact is especially severe among strip malls and other neighborhood and community shopping centers, which suffered their worst quarter in nine years.
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That's because Albertsons already operates a grocery store five doors down in the same strip mall,the South Shore Shopping Center, at 1001 E. ParkCenter Blvd.
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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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