Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tabloid

Tabloid , noun

[A table-mark.]

1.
A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.
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.

Tabloid (tab"loid) , adjective

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.
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.