strip mall
(US, Canada) A shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.
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Police in Carrolton, northwest of Dallas, say a 69-year-old strip mall sushi shop owner has admitted to shooting five people in Korea Town over financial disagreements. www.fox4news.com/news/carroll...
It was costume art! She was going for “cheap 1990s era silicone implant surgery done at a strip mall next to Sears” art look.
And turn the rest into a strip mall. Here they overbuilt warehouses so 1 only a few miles from me they want to make a camp - but both state senators are against (a Trump Republican and Fetterman surprisingly)
all the bad parts of going to a hotel and you're also stuck on the ocean where the only place you can go is a floating strip mall. literally why
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(US, Canada) A shopping center consisting of a row of stores with separate entrances from the outdoors, typically along a road and/or with a parking lot in front.
“Police in Carrolton, northwest of Dallas, say a 69-year-old strip mall sushi shop owner has admitted to shooting five people in Korea Town over financial disagreements. www.fox4news.com/news/carroll...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It was costume art! She was going for “cheap 1990s era silicone implant surgery done at a strip mall next to Sears” art look.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“And turn the rest into a strip mall. Here they overbuilt warehouses so 1 only a few miles from me they want to make a camp - but both state senators are against (a Trump Republican and Fetterman surprisingly)”
— Bluesky· May 2026“all the bad parts of going to a hotel and you're also stuck on the ocean where the only place you can go is a floating strip mall. literally why”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
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An enclosed shopping centre.
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(North America) A strip mall.
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(US) A part of a shopping center located outside the main building, nearer to the street, amid the parking lot.
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(British, AU) A large retail outlet consisting of several shops.