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   tabloid

   /ˈtablɔɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories: "the tabloid press"
   • ▪ lurid and sensational: "a tabloid TV show"

   Word 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’.

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