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.

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).