单词 | tabloid |
释义 | tabloid/ˈtablɔɪd![]() noun 1A newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by sensational stories: [as modifier]: the tabloid press...
1.1 [as modifier] chiefly North American Lurid and sensational: a tabloid TV show...
OriginLate 19th century: from tablet + -oid. Originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets, the term came to denote any small medicinal tablet; the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’. |
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