Citations:tanaholic

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English citations of tanaholic

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

[edit]
1997 2001 2005 2007 2013
ME « 15th c. 16th c. 17th c. 18th c. 19th c. 20th c. 21st c.
  • 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!