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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: sensationalist journalism [syn: yellow journalism, tabloid, tab]
2: newspaper with half-size pages [syn: tabloid, rag, sheet]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: from Tabloid, a trademark Date: 1901 1. compressed or condensed into small scope <tabloid criticism> 2. of, relating to, or resembling tabloids; especially featuring stories of violence, crime, or scandal presented in a sensational manner <tabloid television> • tabloidism noun II. noun Date: 1906 1. digest, summary 2. a newspaper that is about half the page size of an ordinary newspaper and that contains news in condensed form and much photographic matter

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a newspaper, usu. popular in style with bold headlines and large photographs, having pages of half size. 2 anything in a compressed or concentrated form. Etymology: orig. the propr. name of a medicine sold in tablets

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tabloid Tab"loid, n. [A table-mark.] A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tabloids) A tabloid is a newspaper that has small pages, short articles, and lots of photographs. Tabloids are often considered to be less serious than other newspapers. Compare broadsheet. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

daily, daily newspaper, even, extra, extra edition, flat, flattened, flush, gazette, homaloidal, horizontal, level, livid, lurid, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, news, newspaper, newspaper of record, paper, plain, plane, rag, rolled, sensationalistic, sheet, smooth, smoothed out, smoothened, special, special edition, squashed, squashed flat, sultry, tabular, trodden, trodden flat, weekly, weekly newspaper