mall

noun

1. 1

   A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.

   The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.

   America′s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.

2. 2

   An enclosed shopping centre.

   Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.

   Cancel plans just in case you'd call / And say, "Meet me behind the mall"

3. 3

   obsoleteAn alley where the game of pall mall was played.

4. 4

   A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.

   Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.

5. 5

   A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.

   I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]

6. 6

   obsoleteThe game of polo.

7. 7

   obsoleteAn old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.

   But playing with the Boy ar Mall, (I rue the Time, and ever shall) I struck the Ball, I know not how

verb

1. 1

   to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise

2. 2

   to build up with the development of shopping malls

3. 3

   informalto shop at the mall

Forms

plural

malls

past tense

malled

past participle

malled

present participle

malling

third person singular

malls