tabloidn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtablɔɪd/, U.S.

/ˈtæbˌlɔɪd/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: tablet n., -oid suffix.

Etymology: < tabl- (in tablet n.) + -oid suffix.The term was invented by Burroughs, Wellcome, & Company and registered by them as a trademark on 14 Mar. 1884 (compare quot. 1884 at sense A. 1a). In 1903 J. S. Wellcome brought an action in the High Court ‘to establish his right to the exclusive use of the word ‘tabloid’ as indicating compressed drugs and medicines of the plaintiff's manufacture, and also for an injunction to restrain the defendants, who carry on their business as chemists in Manchester, from passing off their goods as those of the plaintiff. The defendants also applied..to rectify the Register of trademarks by removing therefrom the plaintiff's registered trademark of ‘tabloid’ on the ground that it was not a fancy or invented word capable of registration.’ ( Times (1903) 15 Dec. 3/2). The verdict was in favour of the plaintiff:1903 Mr Justice Byrne 20 Nov.–14 Dec. in Rep. Patent & Trade Mark Cases 21 69 The word Tabloid has become so well-known..in consequence of the use of it by the Plaintiff firm in connection with their compressed drugs that I think it has acquired a secondary sense in which it has been used and may legitimately be used so long as it does not interfere with their trade rights. I think the word has been so applied generally with reference to the notion of a compressed form or dose of anything. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeal in 1904. With use in sense A. 4 compare quot. 1913 at sense A. 4a.

A. n.

a. Usually with capital initial. A proprietary name for: a small, flat, or compressed piece of a solid substance (esp. a medicinal or chemical one), a tablet; (also for) a tablet of tea.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > general chemical medicines > [noun]

sulphurc1400

crystals of tartar1605

cremor of tartar1656

cream of tartar1662

polychrest1728

neutral1770

sulphuret1789

arsenical1818

gallo-nitrate1841

glonoin1860

hepar1866

tabloid1884

Nujol1916

pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923

polyvinyl pyrrolidone1945

povidone1955

bromocriptine1974

1884 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Apr. 334 Tabloid... Burroughs, Wellcome, & Company, Snow Hill Buildings, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C... Chemical Substances not included in Class I, used in Medicine and Pharmacy..Preparations of Food for Human Use.

1894 Bristol Mercury 2 Aug. 3/7 Messrs Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co.'s ‘Tabloids’ of pure compressed tea.

1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 695/1 Tabloids—Ichthyol per bott. 0/7½... Tea per tin 0/5.

1897 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. (Portsmouth) 24 Sept. 4/4 Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co...The Celebrated Kepler Malt Extract, Compressed drugs in tabloid form, including Photographic Tabloids in three varieties, for making Solutions the exact strength.

1904 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Oct. 1743/2 Drugs and chemicals for human and veterinary use... Tabloid.

1958 Times 8 Oct. 3/3 Counsel then produced a packet of Aspirin ‘Tabloid’ manufactured by Messrs. Borroughs Wellcome & Co.

1978 Daily Mirror 19 Apr. 24/1 I found a metal box which used to contain ‘Tabloid’ tea.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) ix. 205 The household medicine cupboard of a typical diplomatic family at this time might have included the following:..12. Tabloids of antipyrin.

b. gen. Any small medicinal or chemical tablet; a pill. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > capsule

wafer1848

pearl1872

capsule1875

cachet1884

perle1887

tabloid1887

jelloid1898

wafer-cachet1898

Caplet1937

cap1942

Spansule1954

1887 Bow Bells Nov. 523/2 A ‘tabloid’ of the sugar, a tiny little bit only as large as a pin's head.

1888 Graphic 10 Mar. 242/3 Saccharin is now sold in granular and tabloid form ready for immediate use.

1894 Murray's Handbk. India (ed. 2) p. xx For medicine, plenty of quinine in 2 or 4 grain ‘tabloids’ or pills.

1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ix. 161 Morphia tabloids were served out to all the officers of quarters for administration to badly injured men.

1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House iii, in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War 100 You have..half a dozen tabloids of cyanide of potassium to poison yourself with.

1938 E. J. G. Forse Ceremonial Curiosities xxix. 149 It is wise to carry a few simple tabloids with you.

2. A compressed or concentrated version of something, in later use esp. with implication of a sensationalist, populist, or reductive approach resembling that of tabloid journalism.

ΚΠ

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Jan. 7/3 Another sixpenny marvel is ‘Kendal and Dent's Edition of Everybody's Pocket Cyclopædia’. It is slim, and daintily bound in cloth—a sort of tabloid of ‘useful knowledge’.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 3/1 Five short tableaux of drama which..might be described brutally as five tabloids of melodrama.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 5/2 While in literature the trend of taste is all in the direction of tabloids, composers seem ashamed of anything approaching terseness.

1935 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 27 Statements of a vague character, which are condensations of complex propositional wholes... To such propositions I have elsewhere given the name ‘tabloids’.

1988 J. Rose in Feminist Issues (1995) 71 72 Psychoanalysis is the intellectual tabloid of our culture.

3. A newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, usually characterized as popular in style and dominated by sensational stories. Cf. tabloid newspaper n. at Compounds 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > popular

tabloid1901

tab1927

popular1949

1901 Forum Mar. 58 Go into any bus or train or lunch room at any hour of the day or night and you see men and boys and women and girls taking and enjoying their tabloids.

1918 W. E. Carson Northcliffe x. 304 Since 1908 Alfred Harmsworth, like his famous ‘tabloid’, has disappeared from view.

1926 Encycl. Brit. II. 1055/2 The introduction of tabloids may be explained..by the passing remark of Lord Northcliffe, ‘If some American does not start one I shall have to come over to do it.’

1957 Listener 31 Oct. 683/2 Newspapers have been allowed to transform themselves into tabloids with gossip columns, adulation of film stars, beauty contests and other requisites of the popular press of the West.

1978 Time 3 July 12/1 The Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship.

1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 12/2 The tabloids will not let him forget it because they sense another ex-lover who will spill the liquorice all-sorts.

a. A small Sopwith biplane used in the First World War (1914–18). Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with more than one wing either side > specific biplanes

tabloid1913

longhorn1914

pup1917

pursuit biplane1920

1913 Aeroplane 11 Dec. 635/2 The small speedy Sopwith biplane has been nicknamed the ‘Tabloid’ because it contains so many good qualities in such small compass.

1915 War Illustr. 20 Feb. 22/2 The ‘Tabloid’s supreme value lies in its speed and climbing power.

1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station x. 149 In addition to its maximum speed of 92 miles an hour the ‘Tabloid’ was remarkable in those days for its great speed range.

1956 Times 14 Dec. 13/4 Fred Sigrist was largely responsible for the construction of the early types of biplane, one of which, the ‘Tabloid’ won the Schneider Trophy in 1914.

1994 Theatre Jrnl. 46 519 The ‘tabloid’ is romanticized in relation to the larger, slower airplanes that it replaces.

b. In full tabloid cruiser. A small cruising yacht.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht

steam-yacht1812

skimmer1844

schooner-yacht1876

cruiser1879

keel1883

skimming-dish1884

cutter-yacht1885

bulb-keel1893

keel-boat1893

forty1894

half-rater1894

forty-tonner1895

one-designer1897

raceabout1897

forty-footer1902

sonder1907

star1911

tonnage-cheater1912

scow1929

tabloid1930

Yngling1969

maxi yacht1974

1930 Yachting Monthly Oct. 428/1 T's ship, Honora, is, except for her draught, a ‘tabloid’ cruiser: 19 ft. LOA, with 5 ft. 9 in. beam.

1937 Yachting Monthly Nov. 17/1 Reflections on an Unusual Little Tabloid.

1957 L. Outhwaite Atlantic xxi. 324 I met a young American who had built himself a ‘tabloid’ cruiser.

2001 Canad. Yachting (Nexis) Jan. Winner of the Best Tabloid Cruiser award was Lorraine, a beautiful Folkboat owned by sailmaker Carol Hasse.

B. adj.

Designating something in the form of or likened to a tabloid (sense A. 1a); compressed; concentrated, esp. in order to be easily assimilated; (in later use also) sensationalistic; of or resembling tabloid journalism.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adjective] > make (more) dense or solid > by compaction or compression

compressedc1374

compacta1398

hard-pressed1562

compacted1598

condensed1606

compress1647

constipated1647

confert1661

clotted1674

noddena1864

tabloid1890

1890 Times 12 Nov. 10/3 Mr. Stanley brought back..one of the medicine chests fitted with these compressed tabloid medicines.

1898 Natural Science Feb. 112 This presumed tabloid condition [of the flints] is brought about by a presumed extreme cold.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 10/2 The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals.

1920 R. Macaulay Potterism vi. iii. 232 People might like their science in cheap and absurd tabloid form... The Potter press exulted in scientific discoveries made easy.

1928 Melody Maker Feb. 145/2 Mr. Harold Craxton's playing on the piano of the ‘Three Blind Mice’..as a tabloid Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt.

1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. ii. 232 To the distant reader of the tabloid Press..it looked as if history had at last met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most ambitious dream.

1951 A. Green & J. Laurie Show Biz 571/2 Tab show, tabloid version of a musical.

1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 19 July It's tabloid TV, news as entertainment, appealing to the lowest common denominator.

1996 PMLA 111 233/1 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton provided a tabloid version of the stories of Antony-Aeneas and Cleopatra-Dido.

Compounds

C1.

tabloid newspaper n.

ΚΠ

1901 Hamilton (Ohio) Democrat 3 Jan. 4/1 To the expert in advertising the tabloid newspaper will especially appeal.

1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 22 He was back in the car, reading a tabloid newspaper which I had thought no poet would deign to touch.

1998 Independent 14 May i. 18/1 The capacity of tabloid newspaper readers to ironise and deconstruct what they read should never be underestimated.

tabloid journalism n.

ΚΠ

1901 Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. 9/3 He advocated tabloid journalism.

1942 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 219 171/2 Tabloid journalism, effectively introduced just after the war, for a time out-did the Hearst-Pulitzer extravagances by playing up murder, violence, and immorality without even a pretence at sanctimony.

1998 Gay Times Aug. 88/2 One particularly nasty piece..was described here with venom as ‘a despicable piece of tabloid journalism’.

C2.

tabloid-speak n. originally and chiefly British (freq. depreciative) language or style considered characteristic of tabloid journalism; tabloid jargon; cf. tabloidese n.

ΚΠ

1981 Guardian Weekly 27 Dec. 21/5 Having always baffled us with art-speak are they now going to insult us with tabloid-speak?

1991 Independent 6 July 37/1 Peter Joslin, the senior police spokesman on motoring matters, or ‘Britain's top traffic cop’ in tabloid-speak, has spoken out in favour of increasing the limit.

2006 Financial Times (Nexis) 30 June (Sport section) 11 Klinsmann has, in tabloid-speak, gone in the space of a few weeks from zero to hero.

Derivatives

ˈtabloidy adj. = tabloidesque adj.

ΚΠ

1983 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. c25/4 Most of the artists..practiced a crude and sentimental kind of realism that reads more as political cartoon than esthetic endeavor. Egregious examples are [the] tabloidy ‘Bread’, depicting a thief stealing a loaf through the broken glass of a bakery window.

1994 Q Aug. 146/1 Well maybe if dog's-dinner layouts, garish graphics, wrong-period photos with generally inane captions and tabloidy text inserts at every turn are your thing then, yes, they would make a reasonable stocking filler.

2005 B. Mezrich Busting Vegas xx. 181 There was one other person in the room..facing the same brightly lit mirror, reading a tabloidy magazine.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tabloid
释义	tabloidn.adj. Brit. /ˈtablɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈtæbˌlɔɪd/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: tablet n., -oid suffix. Etymology: < tabl- (in tablet n.) + -oid suffix.The term was invented by Burroughs, Wellcome, & Company and registered by them as a trademark on 14 Mar. 1884 (compare quot. 1884 at sense A. 1a). In 1903 J. S. Wellcome brought an action in the High Court ‘to establish his right to the exclusive use of the word ‘tabloid’ as indicating compressed drugs and medicines of the plaintiff's manufacture, and also for an injunction to restrain the defendants, who carry on their business as chemists in Manchester, from passing off their goods as those of the plaintiff. The defendants also applied..to rectify the Register of trademarks by removing therefrom the plaintiff's registered trademark of ‘tabloid’ on the ground that it was not a fancy or invented word capable of registration.’ ( Times (1903) 15 Dec. 3/2). The verdict was in favour of the plaintiff:1903 Mr Justice Byrne 20 Nov.–14 Dec. in Rep. Patent & Trade Mark Cases 21 69 The word Tabloid has become so well-known..in consequence of the use of it by the Plaintiff firm in connection with their compressed drugs that I think it has acquired a secondary sense in which it has been used and may legitimately be used so long as it does not interfere with their trade rights. I think the word has been so applied generally with reference to the notion of a compressed form or dose of anything. The verdict was upheld by the Court of Appeal in 1904. With use in sense A. 4 compare quot. 1913 at sense A. 4a. A. n. 1. a. Usually with capital initial. A proprietary name for: a small, flat, or compressed piece of a solid substance (esp. a medicinal or chemical one), a tablet; (also for) a tablet of tea. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > general chemical medicines > [noun] sulphurc1400 crystals of tartar1605 cremor of tartar1656 cream of tartar1662 polychrest1728 neutral1770 sulphuret1789 arsenical1818 gallo-nitrate1841 glonoin1860 hepar1866 tabloid1884 Nujol1916 pentaerythritol tetranitrate1923 polyvinyl pyrrolidone1945 povidone1955 bromocriptine1974 1884 Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Apr. 334 Tabloid... Burroughs, Wellcome, & Company, Snow Hill Buildings, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C... Chemical Substances not included in Class I, used in Medicine and Pharmacy..Preparations of Food for Human Use. 1894 Bristol Mercury 2 Aug. 3/7 Messrs Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co.'s ‘Tabloids’ of pure compressed tea. 1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 695/1 Tabloids—Ichthyol per bott. 0/7½... Tea per tin 0/5. 1897 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. (Portsmouth) 24 Sept. 4/4 Burroughs, Wellcome, and Co...The Celebrated Kepler Malt Extract, Compressed drugs in tabloid form, including Photographic Tabloids in three varieties, for making Solutions the exact strength. 1904 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 Oct. 1743/2 Drugs and chemicals for human and veterinary use... Tabloid. 1958 Times 8 Oct. 3/3 Counsel then produced a packet of Aspirin ‘Tabloid’ manufactured by Messrs. Borroughs Wellcome & Co. 1978 Daily Mirror 19 Apr. 24/1 I found a metal box which used to contain ‘Tabloid’ tea. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) ix. 205 The household medicine cupboard of a typical diplomatic family at this time might have included the following:..12. Tabloids of antipyrin. b. gen. Any small medicinal or chemical tablet; a pill. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > pills, tablets, etc. > [noun] > capsule wafer1848 pearl1872 capsule1875 cachet1884 perle1887 tabloid1887 jelloid1898 wafer-cachet1898 Caplet1937 cap1942 Spansule1954 1887 Bow Bells Nov. 523/2 A ‘tabloid’ of the sugar, a tiny little bit only as large as a pin's head. 1888 Graphic 10 Mar. 242/3 Saccharin is now sold in granular and tabloid form ready for immediate use. 1894 Murray's Handbk. India (ed. 2) p. xx For medicine, plenty of quinine in 2 or 4 grain ‘tabloids’ or pills. 1916 ‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ix. 161 Morphia tabloids were served out to all the officers of quarters for administration to badly injured men. 1919 G. B. Shaw Heartbreak House iii, in Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, & Playlets of War 100 You have..half a dozen tabloids of cyanide of potassium to poison yourself with. 1938 E. J. G. Forse Ceremonial Curiosities xxix. 149 It is wise to carry a few simple tabloids with you. 2. A compressed or concentrated version of something, in later use esp. with implication of a sensationalist, populist, or reductive approach resembling that of tabloid journalism. ΚΠ 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Jan. 7/3 Another sixpenny marvel is ‘Kendal and Dent's Edition of Everybody's Pocket Cyclopædia’. It is slim, and daintily bound in cloth—a sort of tabloid of ‘useful knowledge’. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 3/1 Five short tableaux of drama which..might be described brutally as five tabloids of melodrama. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 5/2 While in literature the trend of taste is all in the direction of tabloids, composers seem ashamed of anything approaching terseness. 1935 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 27 Statements of a vague character, which are condensations of complex propositional wholes... To such propositions I have elsewhere given the name ‘tabloids’. 1988 J. Rose in Feminist Issues (1995) 71 72 Psychoanalysis is the intellectual tabloid of our culture. 3. A newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, usually characterized as popular in style and dominated by sensational stories. Cf. tabloid newspaper n. at Compounds 1a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > popular tabloid1901 tab1927 popular1949 1901 Forum Mar. 58 Go into any bus or train or lunch room at any hour of the day or night and you see men and boys and women and girls taking and enjoying their tabloids. 1918 W. E. Carson Northcliffe x. 304 Since 1908 Alfred Harmsworth, like his famous ‘tabloid’, has disappeared from view. 1926 Encycl. Brit. II. 1055/2 The introduction of tabloids may be explained..by the passing remark of Lord Northcliffe, ‘If some American does not start one I shall have to come over to do it.’ 1957 Listener 31 Oct. 683/2 Newspapers have been allowed to transform themselves into tabloids with gossip columns, adulation of film stars, beauty contests and other requisites of the popular press of the West. 1978 Time 3 July 12/1 The Florida-based tabloid, dispatched ten reporters and photographers to scour the Riviera in quest of informants on the courtship. 1999 New Statesman 8 Nov. 12/2 The tabloids will not let him forget it because they sense another ex-lover who will spill the liquorice all-sorts. 4. a. A small Sopwith biplane used in the First World War (1914–18). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > with more than one wing either side > specific biplanes tabloid1913 longhorn1914 pup1917 pursuit biplane1920 1913 Aeroplane 11 Dec. 635/2 The small speedy Sopwith biplane has been nicknamed the ‘Tabloid’ because it contains so many good qualities in such small compass. 1915 War Illustr. 20 Feb. 22/2 The ‘Tabloid’s supreme value lies in its speed and climbing power. 1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station x. 149 In addition to its maximum speed of 92 miles an hour the ‘Tabloid’ was remarkable in those days for its great speed range. 1956 Times 14 Dec. 13/4 Fred Sigrist was largely responsible for the construction of the early types of biplane, one of which, the ‘Tabloid’ won the Schneider Trophy in 1914. 1994 Theatre Jrnl. 46 519 The ‘tabloid’ is romanticized in relation to the larger, slower airplanes that it replaces. b. In full tabloid cruiser. A small cruising yacht. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht steam-yacht1812 skimmer1844 schooner-yacht1876 cruiser1879 keel1883 skimming-dish1884 cutter-yacht1885 bulb-keel1893 keel-boat1893 forty1894 half-rater1894 forty-tonner1895 one-designer1897 raceabout1897 forty-footer1902 sonder1907 star1911 tonnage-cheater1912 scow1929 tabloid1930 Yngling1969 maxi yacht1974 1930 Yachting Monthly Oct. 428/1 T's ship, Honora, is, except for her draught, a ‘tabloid’ cruiser: 19 ft. LOA, with 5 ft. 9 in. beam. 1937 Yachting Monthly Nov. 17/1 Reflections on an Unusual Little Tabloid. 1957 L. Outhwaite Atlantic xxi. 324 I met a young American who had built himself a ‘tabloid’ cruiser. 2001 Canad. Yachting (Nexis) Jan. Winner of the Best Tabloid Cruiser award was Lorraine, a beautiful Folkboat owned by sailmaker Carol Hasse. B. adj. Designating something in the form of or likened to a tabloid (sense A. 1a); compressed; concentrated, esp. in order to be easily assimilated; (in later use also) sensationalistic; of or resembling tabloid journalism. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [adjective] > make (more) dense or solid > by compaction or compression compressedc1374 compacta1398 hard-pressed1562 compacted1598 condensed1606 compress1647 constipated1647 confert1661 clotted1674 noddena1864 tabloid1890 1890 Times 12 Nov. 10/3 Mr. Stanley brought back..one of the medicine chests fitted with these compressed tabloid medicines. 1898 Natural Science Feb. 112 This presumed tabloid condition [of the flints] is brought about by a presumed extreme cold. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 10/2 The proprietor intends to give in tabloid form all the news printed by other journals. 1920 R. Macaulay Potterism vi. iii. 232 People might like their science in cheap and absurd tabloid form... The Potter press exulted in scientific discoveries made easy. 1928 Melody Maker Feb. 145/2 Mr. Harold Craxton's playing on the piano of the ‘Three Blind Mice’..as a tabloid Hungarian Rhapsody by Liszt. 1949 A. Koestler Promise & Fulfilm. ii. ii. 232 To the distant reader of the tabloid Press..it looked as if history had at last met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most ambitious dream. 1951 A. Green & J. Laurie Show Biz 571/2 Tab show, tabloid version of a musical. 1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 19 July It's tabloid TV, news as entertainment, appealing to the lowest common denominator. 1996 PMLA 111 233/1 Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton provided a tabloid version of the stories of Antony-Aeneas and Cleopatra-Dido. Compounds C1. a. tabloid newspaper n. ΚΠ 1901 Hamilton (Ohio) Democrat 3 Jan. 4/1 To the expert in advertising the tabloid newspaper will especially appeal. 1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 22 He was back in the car, reading a tabloid newspaper which I had thought no poet would deign to touch. 1998 Independent 14 May i. 18/1 The capacity of tabloid newspaper readers to ironise and deconstruct what they read should never be underestimated. b. tabloid journalism n. ΚΠ 1901 Westm. Gaz. 1 Jan. 9/3 He advocated tabloid journalism. 1942 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 219 171/2 Tabloid journalism, effectively introduced just after the war, for a time out-did the Hearst-Pulitzer extravagances by playing up murder, violence, and immorality without even a pretence at sanctimony. 1998 Gay Times Aug. 88/2 One particularly nasty piece..was described here with venom as ‘a despicable piece of tabloid journalism’. C2. tabloid-speak n. originally and chiefly British (freq. depreciative) language or style considered characteristic of tabloid journalism; tabloid jargon; cf. tabloidese n. ΚΠ 1981 Guardian Weekly 27 Dec. 21/5 Having always baffled us with art-speak are they now going to insult us with tabloid-speak? 1991 Independent 6 July 37/1 Peter Joslin, the senior police spokesman on motoring matters, or ‘Britain's top traffic cop’ in tabloid-speak, has spoken out in favour of increasing the limit. 2006 Financial Times (Nexis) 30 June (Sport section) 11 Klinsmann has, in tabloid-speak, gone in the space of a few weeks from zero to hero. Derivatives ˈtabloidy adj. = tabloidesque adj. ΚΠ 1983 N.Y. Times 22 Apr. c25/4 Most of the artists..practiced a crude and sentimental kind of realism that reads more as political cartoon than esthetic endeavor. Egregious examples are [the] tabloidy ‘Bread’, depicting a thief stealing a loaf through the broken glass of a bakery window. 1994 Q Aug. 146/1 Well maybe if dog's-dinner layouts, garish graphics, wrong-period photos with generally inane captions and tabloidy text inserts at every turn are your thing then, yes, they would make a reasonable stocking filler. 2005 B. Mezrich Busting Vegas xx. 181 There was one other person in the room..facing the same brightly lit mirror, reading a tabloidy magazine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tabloidv. Brit. /ˈtablɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈtæbˌlɔɪd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: tabloid n. Etymology: < tabloid n. transitive. To express briefly or concisely; to condense or concentrate, (in later use) esp. in a populist or reductive way, resembling that of tabloid journalism. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > conciseness > put concisely or briefly [verb (transitive)] brevyc1503 stenography1652 to spell‥short1857 nutshell1883 tabloid1909 1909 Times 21 Aug. 10/6 Where in one week a drama was presented at the theatre, the next week it was ‘tabloided’ and appeared at the music-hall. 1916 D. Barnes in Morning Telegraph (N.Y.) 26 Nov. ii. 1/1 There is the nerve-racking half-hour before dinner when the incredible folly of the world must be tabloided into wisdom. 1934 Punch 21 Mar. 329/2 Also there is a certain sketchiness in the tale as tabloided for the two hours' traffic of our stage, and some of the connecting-links seem to have got lost in the process. 2006 Observer (Nexis) 19 Feb. (Music Monthly Suppl.) 65 By the time we reached Girls Aloud, the hardcore femaleness of The Slits as tabloided by The Spice Girls had been completely gutted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1884v.1909
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tabloidn.adj.

Compounds

Derivatives

tabloidv.