Definition of "strip mall" [strip mall]

• A shopping complex containing a row of various stores, businesses, and restaurants that usually open onto a common parking lot. (noun)

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• "“Mr. Darryl Miller of Sunnyvale was just pulling into the strip mall at Henderson and El Camino to drop off his dry cleaning when he was assaulted by a young woman who ripped the directional off his steering column.”"
• "Clinic—‘Therapeutic Body Works’—in a strip mall out on Hidden Well Road."
• "In Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., a fifteen-acre section of downtown that included an abandoned shopping mall built as part of a 1970s urban-renewal project and a strip mall has been converted into a lifestyle center called Rockville Town Square."