tabloid

tabloid
noun
  1. 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
  1. 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’
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