tabloid


2tabloid

noun

Definition of TABLOID

2
: a newspaper that is about half the page size of an ordinary newspaper and that contains news in condensed form and much photographic matter

Examples of TABLOID

  1. She is used to seeing her name in the tabloids.

First Known Use of TABLOID

1906

Other Publishing Terms

annotate, dreadful, emend, expurgate, factoid, jump, lobster shift, redaction, referee

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