Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Tabloid \Tab"loid\, n. [A table-mark.]
   A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of
   food, etc.

Tabloid \Tab"loid\, a.
   Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in
   or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits; as, a tabloid
   form of imparting information.

Source : WordNet®

tabloid
     n 1: sensationalist journalism [syn: {yellow journalism}, {tab}]
     2: newspaper with half-size pages [syn: {rag}, {sheet}]