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adjective

Tabloid adj.

Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.

Of or pertaining to a tabloid newspaper or the type of story typically contained in one, such as lurid or sensationalistic stories of scandal, crime, or violence.

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Etymology of 'Tabloid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tabloid" Quotes from Famous Books

... strange device on the banner carried by this Vauxhall contingent. "Curse your charity —we want work," said the white letters, staring threateningly out of a wide strip of red cotton. There was a brutal force in the phrase. It was Socialism in a tabloid. Many a looker-on, whose lot was nigh as desperate as that of the demonstrators, felt that it struck ...

— The Wheel O' Fortune • Louis Tracy

Words linked to "Tabloid" : yellow journalism, tab, rag, sheet