tannist

plural tannists

1. An employee at a tanning salon or someone who is similarly enthusiastic about tanning.

   Ex-pro tannist. Duke's nephew, fan of rocker Jimmy Thudpucker.

   1993, G. B. Trudeau, The Portable Doonesbury, illustrated edition, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 17

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   May 7 — Today top-seeded pro tannist Zonker Harris announced his retirement from competitive tanning..

   1984, G. B. Trudeau, edited by Gloria Steinem, Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN

   IF YOU, A PROFESSIONAL TANNIST, WENT ON THE AIR AND URGED KIDS TO GET OUT OF TANNING, THE IMPACT COULD BE ENORMOUS!

   1986, Garry Trudeau, That's Doctor Sinatra You Little Bimbo, illustrated edition, Abacus, →ISBN

   I think they're trying to figure me out, work out where I fit. New Yorker? Tourist? Tannist? I seem busy and heading somewhere without being dulled by routine or strung out on anxiety or wowed by the fact that I am in New York City, hot damn!

   2011 September 1, Fran Lebowitz, Tales From A Broad: An Unreliable Memoir, Monsoon Books, →ISBN

   All right, she's 19, from Daytona, and her job is "spray tannist."

   2017 November 14, Matt Lawton, “The Venue” (13:37 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 5, episode 6, spoken by Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg)

   [1971 Krochmal et al. Medicinal Plants Appal 258 The bark has been used primarily because of its tannist content, which makes it a strong astringent.]

   2021 June 22, Michael B. Montgomery, Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller, Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English, illustrated edition, UNC Press Books, →ISBN