redtopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

The titles of these newspapers are traditionally presented on a red banner at the top of the front page.

名詞

red top (plural red tops)

1. (UK, Ireland, journalism) A 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.
   • 1997 August 13, Brian Macarthur, “Diana: mover and shaker”, in The Times:

     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).

   • 2010, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl‎, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     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. (UK) Milk of the kind sold with a red top, or a bottle thereof.
   1. (UK, from supermarkets) skimmed milk
      • 2020 March 24, James Andrews, “Coronavirus: Tesco is axing skimmed milk and many offers from its shelves”, in The Mirror‎:

        Red-top milk might be about to disappear

   2. (UK, from delivery) homogenised whole milk
      • 1996, Anne Barnett, Examining Food Technology, Heinemann, →ISBN, page 39:

        Semi-skimmed milk (half the fat of silver and red top)

      • 2026 March 29, Julia Gregory, “Sales of full fat milk on the rise, say producers”, in BBC News‎:

        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.

参考

• black top

アナグラム

• de trop, deport, ported, troped