Meanings
plural tanaholics
- informalA person who is addicted to tanning.
What if, like so many of us, you are a recovering tanaholic? There are some effective, but expensive, treatments to help your skin look better.
2007, Kate Klimo, Buffy Shutt, Coming of Age...All Over Again: The Ultimate Midlife Handbook, Springboard Press, →ISBN2 more examples
For the "tanaholic," then, the psychological appeal of lying in the sun has an almost primordial component, bringing him or her back to a timeless, preverbal sense of unencumbered self.
1997, Daphne Merkin, Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 223No lie, it became like an addiction, and when I moved on from sun beds, I started to apply fake tan every single day. Seriously, I was a tanaholic!
2013, Lauren Goodger, Secrets of an Essex Girl, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN
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