tanaholic

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noun

A person who is addicted to tanning.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nountanaholic (plural tanaholics)

plural tanaholics

  1. 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, →ISBN
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    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 223

    No 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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