Citations:tanaholic

English citations of tanaholic

Noun: "(informal) a person who is addicted to tanning"

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• 1997, Daphne Merkin, Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations, Crown Publishers (1997), →ISBN, page 223:

  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.

• 2001, David Andrusia, Haas Mroue, Donald Olson, & Todd A. Savage, Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe, Hungry Minds (2001), →ISBN, page 578:

  You can also pay extra to sit in the sun beds, if you're a tanaholic type.

• 2005, ELLEgirl, May 2005, page 14:

  So all you tanaholics out there, get out of the sun and get the inside scoop on which products actually deliver the perfect glow.

• 2007, Kate Klimo & Buffy Shutt, Coming of Age...All Over Again: The Ultimate Midlife Handbook, Springboard Press (2007), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  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.

• 2013, Lauren Goodger, Secrets of an Essex Girl, Hodder & Stoughton (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  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!