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Tabloid   Listen
adjective
Tabloid  adj.  
1.
Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid form of imparting information.
2.
Of or pertaining to a tabloid newspaper or the type of story typically contained in one, such as lurid or sensationalistic stories of scandal, crime, or violence.





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"Tabloid" Quotes from Famous Books



... said the Professor as he pocketed his tabloid, "but I never could swallow a pill without water at the best of times, and I don't believe those beasts will give one any. Well, I suppose I must suck it, that's all. Oh! if only the luck would turn, if only the luck ...
— Queen Sheba's Ring • H. Rider Haggard
... had termed it a "poisonous fog." The breakfast editions spoke of it as a "poison fog." But it grew and moved and by the time Tommy had a clear line to get actual information about it, a tabloid had christened it the "Death Mist" and there were three chartered planes circling about it for the benefit of their newspapers. State troopers were being reinforced. At ten o'clock it was necessary to post extra traffic police to take care of the ...
— The Fifth-Dimension Tube • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... into bed, after laying his clothes tidily on one of the chairs. The chloral had not yet quite melted, so he took his tooth-brush and stirred the contents of the tumbler with the handle. In a few moments the last tabloid had dissolved. ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully


Words linked to "Tabloid" :   paper, rag, journalism, news media, sheet, newspaper


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