Sekirov Dictionary

tabloid

/ˈtæblɔɪd/

noun 5
adjective 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun5

A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature.
In full tabloid cruiser: a small yacht used for cruising.
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A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news.
- […] Lyle Stuart, […] is known—notorious would be the proper word—for his publishing and writing in the fields of obscenity and extreme leftism: he puts out a sort of tabloid called "The Independent". — 1967
(US, Canada) A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.
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(no longer used) 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. — 1890

adjective2

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In the form of a tabloid: compressed or compact in size.
- "The Dairy Maid," an alleged song, is really a recitation; a sort of tabloid sentimental melodrama. — 1916
(figurative) Resembling the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper: appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.

verb2

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To convert (a newspaper) into a tabloid 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. — 2013
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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.).
- 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. — 2002

forms

tabloided · tabloiding · tabloids

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