TABLOID


Meaning of TABLOID in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a tabloid headline (= a headline in a newspaper that has a lot of stories about famous people, sex etc )

One tabloid headline read 'Doctor of Death'.

a tabloid newspaper (= a small-sized newspaper, especially one with not much serious news )

Their wedding made the headlines in all the tabloid newspapers.

a tabloid paper (= one with small pages, especially one without much serious news )

Don’t believe everything you read in the tabloid papers.

the tabloid/popular press (= popular newspapers that have a lot of news about famous people etc, rather than serious news )

He regularly appeared in the tabloid press alongside well-known actresses.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

supermarket

Her doorman was perched on a folding chair, his attention largely given over to a supermarket tabloid .

Most of them, however, had pulled copies of the Globe because the supermarket tabloid published copies of grisly crime-scene photographs.

Morris neither confirmed nor denied the story, which had been pursued by the Star, a supermarket tabloid .

Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford decorate the front pages of every supermarket tabloid .

■ VERB

read

He had long since given up reading the tabloids .

If people are going to have their opinions formed by what they read in the tabloids , he feels sorry for them.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Her latest affair was splashed across the cover of the supermarket tabloids.

She claimed that she had had an affair with the President, and sold her story to the tabloids.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And if coverage by the tabloids has missed some of the debate's subtleties, perhaps that is little surprise.

It was this morning's paper he had brought her, a national tabloid printed in London.

No photo expert for either side has scrutinized the 30 snapshots, which Flammer is shopping to tabloids.

She just married me to get money from selling to the tabloids.

The tabloids went for sensations, scandals, gossip and, especially, opinion.

The national dailies can be dismissed quickly, especially the tabloids.

Witnesses who cooperate with tabloids in return for money often find themselves subjected to withering criticism if they are called into court.

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