tabloid
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lɔɪd noun
1.
a newspaper whose pages, usually five columns wide, are about one-half the size of a standard-sized newspaper page.
2.
a newspaper this size concentrating on sensational and lurid news, usually heavily illustrated.
3.
a short form or version; condensation; synopsis; summary.
adjective
4.
compressed or condensed in or as if in a tabloid: a tabloid article; a tabloid account of the adventure.
5.
luridly or vulgarly sensational.
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| —n | |
| 1. | Compare broadsheet a newspaper with pages about 30 cm (12 inches) by 40 cm (16 inches), usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs and a concise and often sensational style |
| 2. | (modifier) designed to appeal to a mass audience or readership; sensationalist: the tabloid press; tabloid television |
| [C20: from earlier Tabloid, a trademark for a medicine in tablet form] | |
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Word Origin & History
tabloid
1884, "small tablet of medicine," trademark name (by Burroughs, Wellcome and Co.) for compressed or concentrated chemicals and drugs, formed from tablet + Gk.-derived suffix -oid, from oeides "like." By 1898, it was being used figuratively to mean a compressed form or dose
of anything, hence tabloid journalism (1901), and newspapers that typified it (1918), so called for having short, condensed news articles and/or for being small in size.
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Example sentences
Literary critics bemoan her cardboard characters and tabloid style.
So fervent is the tabloid interest that the two stars, who should be promoting their movie, are on another continent.
What started as a quick target for the tabloid press and radio shock jocks has grown to a guilty national pleasure.
The tabloid tends to aggressively go after the royal family.
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