tabloid

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tab=loid

CIDE DICTIONARY

tabloid, n. [A table-mark.].

•  A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  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, a. 

•  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.]
•  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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tabloid, n.
1 a newspaper, usu. popular in style with bold headlines and large photographs, having pages of half size.
2 anything in a compressed or concentrated form.

Etymology

orig. the propr. name of a medicine sold in tablets

THESAURUS

tabloid

daily, daily newspaper, even, extra, extra edition, flat, flattened, flush, gazette, homaloidal, horizontal, level, livid, lurid, national newspaper, neighborhood newspaper, news, newspaper, newspaper of record, paper, plain, plane, rag, rolled, sensationalistic, sheet, smooth, smoothed out, smoothened, special, special edition, squashed, squashed flat, sultry, tabular, trodden, trodden flat, weekly, weekly newspaper