(archaic) A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.; a pill, a tablet.
One of the compartments was found to contain some forty compressed tabloids, which on analysis proved to be potassium bromide.
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(figurative) A compact or compressed version of something; especially something having a popular or sensational nature.
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.
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In the form of a tabloid (noun senses and ): compressed or compact in size.
Travellers, explorers and missionaries are enabled to carry the most effective medicines in the smallest possible space by using ‘Tabloid’ Medicine cases as supplied to [[w:Henry Morton Stanley
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