tabloid

A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.; a pill, a tablet.archaic

• One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide.
• A large number of tabloids are contained in a very small bottle, and only require crushing and dissolving in the stated quantity of water to produce a large volume of solution.

A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature.; In full tabloid cruiser: a small yacht used for cruising.figuratively

• This boat Mayfay has been admirable as a tabloid cruiser and while Sure Mike is about her same size, Sure Mike is far more nicely modeled; she will not have Mayfay's 17-mile-an-hour homespun plainness.

A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature.; A newspaper having pages half the dimensions of a broadsheet, especially characterized as favouring stories of a popular or sensational nature over serious news.figuratively

• […] Lyle Stuart, […] is known—notorious would be the proper word—for his publishing and writing in the fields of obscenity and extreme leftism: he puts out a sort of tabloid called "The Independent".
• A public school in Moperville, where the local newspaper is sold in neighboring towns with all the regard of a tabloid. / We've got a reputation to protect! We can only report on confirmed monsters, like mega hogs, or Bigfoot!

A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature.; A paper size 11 × 17 inches (279 × 432 millimetres) in dimensions.CanadaUSfiguratively

In the form of a tabloid (noun senses 2 and 2.2): compressed or compact in size.not-comparable

• Wares other than drugs for compounding prescriptions are being brought in; tabloid medicines are being introduced, proprietary and other goods are coming in, and toilet and fancy articles of limited amounts are being displayed.
• "The Dairy Maid," an alleged song, is really a recitation; a sort of tabloid sentimental melodrama.

Resembling the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper: appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.figurativelynot-comparable

• tabloid journalism

To express (something) in a compact or condensed manner, especially in the style of journalism generally associated with a tabloid newspaper (appealing to unsophisticated people, sensational, etc.).transitive

• You won't have trouble recognizing some of the much-tabloided originals on whom characters are based—for example, the rather lonely figure of the Italian-American singer-actor-producer-and-great lover.
• If Michael [Jordan] is upset, though, because the Chicago Sun-Times has tabloided his private life with the front-page headline, "So who gets the house?" he isn't saying.

To convert (a newspaper) into a tabloid (noun sense 2.2) format.transitive

• The first key developments in the tabloiding of British newspapers are defined initially and literally by the shift of the Sun to a tabloid format in 1969 and the Daily Mail in 1971.