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tabloid

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tab·loid

[tab-loid]
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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Origin:
1905–10; tabl(et) + -oid

tab·loid·ism, noun
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tabloid (ˈtæblɔɪd)
 
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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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
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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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