a 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] chiefly North American lurid and sensational:a tabloid TV show
Derivatives
tabloidization
noun (also tabloidisation)
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’
tabloid in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of tabloid in the US English dictionary
