mallnoun/mɔːl/

• 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

  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

  obsoleteAn alley where the game of pall mall was played.

• 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

  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

  obsoleteThe game of polo.

• 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

mallverb/mɔːl/

• 1

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

• 2

  to build up with the development of shopping malls

• 3

  informalto shop at the mall