tabloid

tab-loid · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard newspaper, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories.

  2. 2.

    (as modifier) Sensationalized or lurid in style.

Forms

plural: tabloids

Related words

Antonyms: broadsheet, quality paper
See also: broadsheet, journalism, newspaper
Synonyms: rag, yellow press

Etymology

Originally a trademark for compressed tablets of medicine, from tablet + -oid. Extended to mean "compressed" news format.