tabloid

From a trademark for a medicine compressed into a tablet. See -oid.

tabloid (plural tabloids)

1. (publishing) A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format.
2. (publishing) A newspaper, especially one in this format, that favours stories of a sensational or even fictitious nature over serious news.
3. (medicine, dated) A compressed portion of drugs, chemicals, etc.; a tablet.
   • 1911, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Same Boat”:

     ‘It’s those tabloids!’ Conroy stamped his foot feebly as he blew his nose. ‘They’ve knocked me out. I used to be fit once.’

• scandal sheet, tab (colloquial), yellow press

• broadsheet

tabloid (not comparable)

1. In the format of a tabloid.
2. Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
   • 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

     Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.

   tabloid journalism

• compact
• quality newspaper

Borrowed from English tabloid.

tabloid m (invariable)

1. tabloid

Borrowed from English tabloid.

• IPA^(key): /tabˈlɔ.it/

tabloid m inan

1. tabloid

• brukowiec, szmatławiec