Tabloid \Tab"loid\, n. [A table-mark.] 1. A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. a newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard-sized newspaper, especially one that has relatively short or condensed articles and a large porortion of pictorial matter. [PJC]
Tabloid \Tab"loid\ (t[a^]b"loid), a. 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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. [PJC]
She writes at least three columns and features for the Plain Dealer's Friday tabloid and another two to three reviews for the rest of the week.
BBC1's tabloid telly series 999 (9.30) which shows films or reconstructions of heroic rescues today screens an amateur video record of the boy who fell into the gorilla pit at London Zoo.
He points to the New York Post, a rival tabloid where unions made extensive wage-and-hour concessions earlier this year.
Lorie said the studio is worried about tabloid exploitation, particularly because one actor on each of the previous movies died shortly after shooting was completed.
The tabloid Daily Mirror devoted almost an entire inside page to the hubbub.
The tabloid Daily Star quoted an unidentified friend of the prince as saying Charles was "highly embarrassed" by the case.
Of 24 letters from readers printed by the mass-circulation tabloid Kurier in March, only five were in favor.
Auto Times Weekly was a mass-market, weekly tabloid published jointly by Hearst and Axel Springer Verlag.
The London tabloid the Daily Express said the possible hijack threat was detailed in a secret memorandum dated March 17 from the FAA.
One fanciful tabloid has even engineered a kiss and tell on the cheap, hiring a medium to transmit the amorous confessions of a sultry, though deceased, British actress.
This is tabloid TV, tales of heroism and bravery re-enacted.
Miss Bordes, a former Miss India, was a low-paid researcher in the House of Commons a year ago when a tabloid broke the story of her other life.
Meanwhile, we could use the island versions of public transport - walking and swimming. Anything else? The way in which customer complaints are sometimes covered in the tabloid press.
While there are some decent excuses for the failure to pick up the unauthorised forex dealings, a little public abasement goes a long way towards drawing the sting of tabloid criticism.
Actress Elizabeth Taylor filed a $20 million libel suit Sept. 25 against the National Enquirer, over articles in the tabloid that labeled her as a heavy drinker with a disfiguring disease.
LONRHO PLC of Britain is discussing the sale of Today, the struggling tabloid newspaper, to the British press baron Robert Maxwell and told the paper's staff yesterday that a sale could be announced early this week, a Today editor said.
Publisher Stephen F. Rose on Tuesday blamed the paper's demise on city officials who refused to allow teen-agers to hawk the tabloid on the street.
The strike was good news for the Daily News' competitors in the battle for tabloid survival in the city.
The racketeering allegations were made by actress Roseanne Barr after the tabloid newspaper printed an intimate letter she wrote to her husband, actor and producer Tom Arnold.
Financial losses led Schiff to believe that the paper needed comic strips, columns, features and a tabloid format.
He has been especially hurt by recent articles in British tabloid newspapers linking the Bundesbank to Germany's Nazi past.
Under Hacker's guidance, the students _ acting as reporters, editors, photographers and typesetters _ have pushed the tabloid's circulation to 1,100 with stories centered on the life and times of Medicine Bow's 300 residents and their neighbors.
The tabloid newspapers have given at least as much space to the video link-up between British soldiers in the former Yugoslavia and their families at home. The contrast between the two evacuation operations could hardly be more striking.
The raft of micro measures to ease the transition for the long-term jobless from benefit to employment were not susceptible to easy tabloid headlines.
London's tabloid newspapers today criticized the 79 percent pay raise granted the Duke and Duchess of York in the government's new budget.
The tabloid newspaper is to begin a Sunday edition March 5. It will sell for $1.
Edward I. Koch, soon to be New York City's ex-mayor, will be named a columnist for the New York Post, the city's racy daily tabloid newspaper, according to people close to the paper.
The first edition of the tabloid featured a photograph of a bright sun rising over the Gateway Arch.
Mirror's flagship publication is the tabloid Daily Mirror, with sales of three million copies daily.
He said the tabloid, if it is launched, might provide USA Today with "a sixth day, in effect." The Albuquerque Tribune on Dec. 13 introduced The Electronic Trib, a computer bulletin board featuring newspaper stories and other services.