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tabloid

Pronunciation:  'tabloyd

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  newspaper with half-size pages
  2. [n]  sensationalist journalism
 
 Synonyms: rag, sheet, yellow journalism
 
 See Also: fourth estate, journalism, news media, newspaper, paper

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Tab"loid\, n. [A table-mark.]
    A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of
    food, etc.
    
    
  2. \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.
    
    
 

 

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