red top

red topnoun

• 1

  journalismmediaA tabloid newspaper, particularly one of those aimed primarily at a working class audience and considered to have lower journalistic standards than black tops or broadsheets.

  • 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.
• 2

  Milk of the kind sold with a red top, or a bottle thereof.

  • Red-top milk might be about to disappear
• 3

  Milk of the kind sold with a red top, or a bottle thereof.

  • Semi-skimmed milk (half the fat of silver and red top)
  • Red top milk is in and green top milk is out, according to Guernsey Dairy, which has seen sales of full fat milk increase by 30% since 2019.