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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.

noun

Tabloid n.

A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.

A newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard-sized newspaper, especially one that has relatively short or condensed articles and a large porortion of pictorial matter.

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Etymology of 'Tabloid'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tabloid" Quotes from Famous Books

... doing it, provided only that they place themselves in the hands of a higher authority which, without putting them to the least inconvenience, can and will, by uttering a word or by administering a tabloid, set them once again ...

— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust

... La Lacque we received our gas training. It took the form of a route march to a place six miles away, where the whole Division being assembled as at sports, various demonstrations were made, including the firing of projectors—tabloid ...

— The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 • F.L. Morrison

... precisely half-past nine, while a tabloid drama in progress on the stage rendered the presence of the orchestra unnecessary, that Emil ...

— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... town and city in the kingdom. And your journalist, though he may have scant leisure for its digestion, absorbs the whole of this mass of intelligence each day in the process of conveying one-tenth part of it, in tabloid form, ...

— The Message • Alec John Dawson