[tab-loid] 
| 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. |
| 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. |
| tab·loid (tāb'loid') n. A newspaper of small format giving the news in condensed form, usually with illustrated, often sensational material. adj.
[From tabloid journalism, from Tabloid, trademark for a drug or chemical in condensed form.] tab'loid'ism n. |
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