(informal) A security guard employed to provide security at a shopping mall.

plural of mall cop

Able to be hammered into thin sheets; capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers. / (figuratively) Flexible, liable to change.

A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.

(transitive) To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.

(anatomy) The small hammer-shaped bone of the middle ear. / (ichthyology) The tripus (ossicle in cypriniform fishes). / (zoology) One of the paired calcareous structures within the mastax of rotifers.

A type of articulated locomotive, in which there are two powered trucks, with the rear truck being rigidly attached to the main body and boiler of the locomotive, while the front powered truck is attached to the rear by a hinge, so that it may swing from side to side, and with the front end of the boiler resting upon a sliding bearing on the swinging front truck.

(cryptography) Often the malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.

(historical, nautical) Carousing on icebound Greenland whaling ships.

The quality of being malleable.