'Tabloid' definitions:

Definition of 'tabloid'

From: WordNet
noun
Sensationalist journalism [syn: yellow journalism, tabloid, tab]
noun
Newspaper with half-size pages [syn: tabloid, rag, sheet]

Definition of 'Tabloid'

From: GCIDE
  • Tabloid \Tab"loid\, n. [A table-mark.]
  • 1. A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 2. 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. [PJC]

Definition of 'Tabloid'

From: GCIDE
  • Tabloid \Tab"loid\ (t[a^]b"loid), a.
  • 1. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 2. 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. [PJC]

Synonyms of 'tabloid'

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