tabloid

Universal Words noun (sometimes disapproving) a newspaper with small pages (usually half the size of those in larger papers). Tabloids usually have short articles and a lot of pictures and stories about famous people, and are thought of as less serious than other newspapers: The story made the front page in all the tabloids. compareBROADSHEET, QUALITYNEWSPAPER tabloid adjective [onlybeforenoun]: tabloid journalists * a tabloid newspaper * the tabloid press