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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

tab·loid / ˈtabˌloid/ • n. a newspaper having pages half the size of those of a standard newspaper, typically popular in style and dominated by headlines, photographs, and sensational stories. ∎ [as adj.] sensational in a lurid or vulgar way: they argued about who made what allegation on what tabloid TV show.

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tabloid

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

tabloid trade-mark term for medicinal tablets XIX; used attrib., transf., applied to written or printed matter in condensed form. alt. of TABLET (see -OID).

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tabloid

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

tabloid •avoid, Boyd, Coed, droid, Floyd, Freud, Lloyd, overjoyed, self-employed, unalloyed, underemployed, unemployed, void •geoid • amoeboid (US ameboid) •globoid • cuboid • gadoid • typhoid •fungoid • discoid • tabloid • colloid •celluloid • mongoloid • alkaloid •coralloid • crystalloid • prismoid •arachnoid • sphenoid • hominoid •crinoid, echinoid •solenoid • humanoid • paranoid •hypoid • anthropoid • gabbroid •android • steroid • thyroid • hydroid •spheroid • meteoroid • Murgatroyd •Polaroid •haemorrhoid (US hemorrhoid) •asteroid • schizoid • factoid • mastoid •deltoid • planetoid • ovoid • trapezoid •rhizoid

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