tabloid

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.

   A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.; a pill, a tablet.

   • One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide.
   • A large number of tabloids are contained in a very small bottle, and only require crushing and dissolving in the stated quantity of water to produce a large volume of solution.
   • ‘It's those tabloids!’ Conroy stamped his foot feebly as he blew his nose. ‘They’ve knocked me out.’
2. 2

   A compact or compressed version of something

   A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature.

   • This boat Mayfay has been admirable as a tabloid cruiser and while Sure Mike is about her same size, Sure Mike is far more nicely modeled; she will not have Mayfay's 17-mile-an-hour homespun plainness.
3. 3

   In the form of a tabloid (noun senses 2 and 2.2)

   In the form of a tabloid (noun senses 2 and 2.2): compressed or compact in size.

   • Wares other than drugs for compounding prescriptions are being brought in; tabloid medicines are being introduced, proprietary and other goods are coming in, and toilet and fancy articles of limited amounts are being displayed.
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   1. 4

      Resembling the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper

      Resembling the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper: appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.

      • tabloid journalism
      • I watched your 6 o'clock news today; it's straight tabloid. You had a minute and a half of that lady riding a bike naked in Central Park; on the other hand, you had less than a minute of hard national and international news.
   2. 5

      To express (something) in a compact or condensed manner, especially in the style of…

      To express (something) in a compact or condensed manner, especially in the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper (appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.).

      • You won't have trouble recognizing some of the much-tabloided originals on whom characters are based—for example, the rather lonely figure of the Italian-American singer-actor-producer-and-great lover.
      • If Michael [Jordan] is upset, though, because the Chicago Sun-Times has tabloided his private life with the front-page headline, "So who gets the house?" he isn't saying.
   3. 6

      To convert (a newspaper) into a tabloid (noun sense 2.2) format.

      • The first key developments in the tabloiding of British newspapers are defined initially and literally by the shift of the Sun to a tabloid format in 1969 and the Daily Mail in 1971.

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