pall-mall

noun

1. a game, popular in the 17th century, in which a ball of boxwood was struck with a mallet in an attempt to drive it through a raised iron ring at the end of a playing alley.
2. a playing alley on which this game was played.

noun

1. a street in London, England, famed for its clubs.

noun obsolete

1. a game in which a ball is driven by a mallet along an alley and through an iron ring
2. the alley itself

noun

1. a street in central London, noted for its many clubs

see mall.