red-top

noun

a tabloid newspaper characterized by sensationalism

Words nearby red-top

red-short, red-shouldered hawk, red-spotted purple, red-tag, red-tailed hawk, red-top, red-wat, red-winged blackbird, redact, redan, redargue

Word Origin for red-top

C20: from the colour of the masthead on these publications

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Examples from the Web for red-top

The original cash cow of the Murdoch newspapers was his red-top daily, The Sun.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine|Clive Irving|August 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But here the other week I found myself able to buy me some red-top boots with brass toes on 'em.
From Place to Place|Irvin S. Cobb
Of the two sub-varieties, some cultivators prefer the Green-top; others, the Rose-colored or Red-top.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America|Fearing Burr
I can remember there was a pair of red-top boots that was exceedingly jealous of us.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales|Eugene Field

The red-top were afore him, and I tryin' to make what become to him.
The Trespasser, Complete|Gilbert Parker
Himself, he trembled; for he knew that he was looking—not at an ordinary cloud, but at Red-Top Plume himself, the great cloud god!
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park|James Willard Schultz