/ mɔːl; NAmE ; BrE also mæl/ noun
( especially NAmE ) = shopping mall :
Let's go to the mall.
Some teenagers were hanging out at the mall.
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 17th cent.: probably a shortening of pall-mall , a 16th and 17th cent. game. The current sense dates from the 1960s.