strip mall

noun

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

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Further down the Pacific Coast Highway, at the Malibu Colony Plaza strip mall, a customer and a barista at the local Starbucks guessed at when the lights would come back on. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026 As per the strip mall’s website, the retail destination houses two banks, a CVS, and a Bath & Body Works, which was founded in 1990, a year after the beloved crime show went off the air. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026 The restaurant is clean as a whistle, located in its original strip mall building with wooden tables and banquet chairs. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Oct. 2026 For now, the district is a strip mall of low-slung buildings whose tenants include a vape shop, a Filipino restaurant, a coin laundromat, and a cellphone store. — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for strip mall

Word History

First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of strip mall was in 1977

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“Strip mall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strip%20mall. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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