tanaholic

tanaholic

English

Etymology

tan +‎ -aholic

Noun

tanaholic (plural tanaholics)

1. (informal) A person who is addicted to tanning.
   • 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.

   • 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!

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:tanaholic.