pulp

noun

• 1a soft, wet, shapeless mass of material:boiling with soda will reduce your peas to pulp
• the soft fleshy part of a fruit.
• a soft wet mass of fibers derived from rags or wood, used in papermaking.
• vascular tissue filling the interior cavity and root canals of a tooth.
• Mining pulverized ore mixed with water.

• 2 [usually as modifier] popular or sensational writing that is generally regarded as being of poor quality:the story is a mix of pulp fiction and Greek tragedy

  [because formerly printed on cheap paper]

verb

• crush into a soft, shapeless mass.
• withdraw (a publication) from the market and recycle the paper.