▸nouna newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories:
[as modifier]the tabloid press.
▪[as modifier]mainly North American Englishlurid and sensational:
a tabloid TV show.
– ORIGIN late 19th century: from tablet + -oid. Originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets, the term came to denote any small medicinal tablet; the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’.
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