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tabloid noun. L19.
[from TABLET noun + -OID, orig. proprietary name of a medicinal or pharmaceutical preparation sold in tablet form.]
A small (medicinal) tablet. Also fig., anything in a compressed or concentrated form (freq. attrib.). L19.
Taffrail Morphia tabloids were served out..to badly injured men. Melody Maker Playing..'Three Blind Mice'..as a tabloid Hungarian Rhapsody.
A newspaper, usu. popular in style with easily assimilable news and features, bold headlines, large photographs, and pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet. E20.
tabloid journalism, tabloid journalist, tabloid newspaper, tabloid press.
V. Glendinning When he married..a girl..half his age, the tabloids made the most of it.
tabloi'dese noun the style of writing characteristic of tabloid newspapers L20.
tabloi'desque adjective resembling a tabloid newspaper, esp. in the sensationalized reporting of news L20.
tabloidi'zation noun (a) compression of literature etc. into short and easily assimilated form; (b) change in style and content from the factual to the sensational, esp. in television news: M20.