Definitions
newspaper with half-size pages
Word origin
The noun is derived from tabl(et) + -oid (suffix meaning ‘having the likeness of, resembling’), originally coined by the United Kingdom firm Burroughs, Wellcome & Company as a brand name for their medicines and other products such as tea in tablet form and registered as a trademark on 14 March 1884.
Used in a sentence
“One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide.”
“A large number of tabloids are contained in a very small bottle, and only require crushing and dissolving in the stated quantity of water to produce a large volume of solution.”
“‘It's those tabloids!’ Conroy stamped his foot feebly as he blew his nose. ‘They’ve knocked me out.’”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Sensational newspaper”7 letters
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