a newspaper having pages half the size of those of the average broadsheet, typically popular in style and dominated by headlines, photographs, and sensational stories 通俗小报 ■[as modifier](chiefly N. Amer.)lurid and sensational (主北美)耸人听闻的,引起轰动的 a tabloid TV show. 耸人听闻的电视节目。
tabloidization noun 语源
late 19th cent.: from tablet + -oid. Originally the proprietary name of a medicine sold in tablets, the term came to denote any small medicinal tablet; the current sense reflects the notion of ‘concentrated, easily assimilable’