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- noun A
magazine made withinexpensive paper andprinting , containing shocking orsensationalist textfiction by low-paid writers.
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- noun an inexpensive magazine printed on poor quality paper
Etymologies
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Derived from the inexpensive wood pulp used to make low-priced mass marketed magazines in the United States from the early 1900s.
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