red-top

British  

noun

1. a tabloid newspaper characterized by sensationalism

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Etymology

Origin of red-top

C20: from the colour of the masthead on these publications

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

red-top

But, the red-top adds, "it's Tuch & go", referencing team manager Thomas Tuchel.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Yet as a journalist – and a consumer of celebrity news – I couldn’t ignore the ways in which print journalists right across the spectrum, from red-top to broadsheet, misrepresented Michael.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2017

So says Larry Lamb, the first editor of the relaunched version of the Sun, in James Graham’s retelling of the genesis of the British red-top tabloid.

From Economist ● Jul. 6, 2017

Council members decrying the “helter-skelter” addition of hundreds more red-top meters, sometimes inexplicably clustered in a block.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2016

We have other sorts of grasses, such as red-top, blue-joint, &c.: these grasses, however, are inferior, and therefore never grown from choice.

From Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Samuel Strickland