tabloid
tabloid
Definition
tab·loid (tab′lo̵id′)
noun
- a size of newspaper page, about 14 inches high by 12 inches wide, half the size of a standard page
- a newspaper using such a page size, esp. one with many pictures and short, often sensational, news stories
Etymology: tabl(et) + -oid: orig. a trademark for a medicine tablet
adjective
- condensed; short
- of or characterized by the sensationalism regarded as typical of tabloids tabloid talk shows
tabloid
Usage Examples
Possessives
- today: Other news: Elsewhere in today's tabloids are several condemnations of Madame Tussauds ' new Kylie waxwork.
Converse of object
- tell: A source told the tabloid: " She's going from strength to strength.
- read: I only read the tabloid newspapers at the weekend, while on a weekday I don't read tabloids.
- go: No one can suppose that going tabloid is some miracle elixir.
- do: BBC NEWS | UK | Do tabloids feed on crime fear?
- take: King's / IoP / Debate 05 - Keep taking the tabloids!
- publish: The Globe: Information from Answers.com The Globe ( tabloid ) The Globe is a supermarket tabloid published in North America.
Adjective modifier
- red-top: Only journalists on red-top tabloids were down at the bottom with the estate agents.
- right-wing: Several of the right-wing tabloids, in particular, have been plugging away on immigration and asylum in a sustained way for many months.
- infamous: Anorak pokes fun every weekday at Britain's infamous tabloids, .. .
- British: Football | Swiss hit back at British tabloids Swiss hit back at British tabloids.
- daily: Full text of articles from Daily Record, the Scottish daily tabloid.
- English: English tabloid The Sun has published three pictures which can be viewed by clicking here.
Modifies a noun
- newspaper: Some tabloid newspapers express strong views which are hostile to the European Court.
- headline: On October 21 a tabloid headline claimed: " Blunkett gives top copper a roasting " .
- sensationalism: To me " gossip " sounds perilously close to " tabloid sensationalism " .
- journalism: A new identity Without question, British tabloid journalism can be awful.
- press: The UK's tabloid press has had a field day on the growing scandal.
- fodder: While she was never exactly tabloid fodder, focus inevitably shifted to her personal life.
Noun used with modifier
- supermarket: Weekly World News - Online edition of the supermarket tabloid.
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