释义 |
mall /mal, (esp N American) möl/ noun- A public walk
- A level shaded walk (from a former alley of the kind in London)
- A pedestrian shopping area or street, esp (orig N American) an enclosed centre, often outside a town, with connected aisles of shops, restaurants, etc (Brit also shopping mall)
- A maul or heavy wooden hammer (obsolete)
- (a mallet used in) the old game of pall-mall (historical)
- A pall-mall alley (historical)
transitive verb To maul or beat ORIGIN: See maul and pall-mall mall rat noun (US sl) A young person who spends a lot of leisure time in shopping malls |