tab, peccadillo

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NOUN

plural tabs

North American 
informal 

• A tabloid newspaper.

  ‘she tries to cover up his peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages’

Origin

1920s: abbreviation.

peccadillo

NOUNplural peccadilloes, plural peccadillos

• A relatively minor fault or sin.

  ‘the sexual peccadilloes of celebrities aren't necessarily news’

Origin

Late 16th century: from Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado ‘sin’, from Latin peccare ‘to sin’.