Date: 1900-2000 Origin: Tabloid a trademark for a medicinal tablet (19-20 centuries); because of the small size of the tablet tabloid noun tab???loid also tabloid newspaper [countable]TCN a newspaper that has small pages, a lot of photographs, and stories mainly about sex, famous people etc rather than serious news [??? broadsheet] ???tabloid adjective [only before noun] tabloid journalistsWORD FO