Tabloid

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  • noun. A newspaper of small format giving the news in condensed form, usually with illustrated, often sensational material.
  • adjective. In summary form; condensed.
  • adjective. Lurid or sensational.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A tablet; a small troche, usually administered by the mouth, or, after solution, hypodermically.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
  • noun. 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.
  • adjective. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits.
  • adjective. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of the standard format, especially one that favours stories of a sensational nature over more serious news.
  • adjective. In the format of a tabloid.
  • adjective. Relating to a tabloid or tabloids.
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  • noun. sensationalist journalism
  • noun. newspaper with half-size pages
  • Word Usage
    "Famous defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden lashed out at Orlando ` s local media, and what she calls tabloid media on NBC ` s "Today Show" this morning, while simultaneously attacking the prosecution ` s decision to seek the death penalty."
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