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tab⋅loid
[tab-loid] 
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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| 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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Tabloid
Tab"loid\, n. [A table-mark.] A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.Tabloid
Tab"loid\, a. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : tabloid
Spanish:
tabloide,
German:
die Boulevardpresse,
Japanese:
タブロイド版新聞
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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