Meaning of red top | Babel Free

Definitions

A tabloid newspaper, particularly one of those considered to have lower journalistic standards than the broadsheets.

Ireland, UK

Examples

“Just as broadsheets only exceptionally outsell any of the tabloids, so middle-market tabloids—the Mail and Express⟳—only rarely outsell the red tops (although the upmarket Sunday Times outsells the mid-market Express⟳ on Sunday and The Mail on Sunday outsells The People).”

“Tabloids have⟳ their own⟳ language. Maybe it's because the pages are smaller than the broadsheet papers, or perhaps it's because they have⟳ to make⟳ room to fit all those pictures of Jordan in her knickers in each day, but tabloidese is a language and a skill peculiar to the red tops.”

CEFR level