n. A compressed portion of one or more drugs or chemicals, or of food, etc.n. a newspaper with pages about half the size of a standard-sized newspaper, especially one that has relatively short or condensed articles and a large porortion of pictorial matter.adj. Compressed or condensed, as into a tabloid; administrated in or as in tabloids, or small condensed bits.adj. of or pertaining to a tabloid newspaper or the type of story typically contained in one, such as lurid or sensationalistic stories of scandal, crime, or violence.