Tabloid (?), n. [A table-mark.] 1. A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. 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 (tăbloid), a. 1. 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.]
2. 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]