n (sometimes disapprov )
a newspaper with pages that are half the size of those of larger newspapers (called broadsheets ). Most of Britain’s most popular newspapers are tabloids. These include the Sun , the Mirror , the Express and the Daily Mail . Although some tabloids are serious newspapers and the broadsheets also have tabloid editions, many people talk about tabloid journalism or the tabloid press to refer to a type of newspaper that contains many articles about sex, sport and famous people, and little serious news, and is often insulting to women and people from other countries. The word tabloid is less widely used in the US, where most of the important national newspapers are of a regular size. The best-known US tabloid, which uses short articles and large photographs, is the New York Daily News . Serious tabloids include the Chicago Sun-Times .
Compare broadsheet .