tan
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- noun
- /tæn/
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bronceado
- After spending the whole summer outdoors, she developed a beautiful tan that everyone admired.
Also, my legs need the tan real bad.
- Also, my legs need the tan real bad.
- I have a little bit of a tan left, so we'll see.
- This is a firming and luminizing kind of tan enhancing body spray.
- It's crazy how it's called faux tan because biotch it does.
- I got the medium, I got the tan light, and I got the deep tan.
- I always use butter, but that's my tan shade.
- Today we are doing the tan called Nirvana Mist.
- It is the self tan, a purity mist.
- This one just when I have a tan, they're just the fastest.
- What do you call skin perfecting tan sealer Blemish free tan?
- I'm like black girls spray tan can't comprehend.
Examples
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Go to the beach and get a tan.
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Bring a nice bathing suit though, strapless so you don't get a tan line.
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I have a little bit of a tan left, so we'll see.
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I do have a lot of face tan on, so that could be why.
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Pretty, with brown hair and dark eyes, and a tan look to her skin.
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Also, my legs need the tan real bad.
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Got a nice tan playing tennis with all your rich friends.
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We were sitting on towels in the sun, trying to get a tan and drinking whiskey sours.
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A heavyset woman with a dark tan is standing behind a counter cluttered with laundry.
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Unruffled and proper in his tan uniform and stiff-brimmed hat, the driver pulled to the curb.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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A dark color the skin gets after being in the sun
A warm, slightly tanned appearance from being in the sun
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A member of a British force who helped the police in Ireland to stop the independence movement, 1919–1921
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A Chinese gambling game where players bet on how many counters remain under a bowl after grouping them by four
A large strong American hunting dog with black fur and tan marks that hunts raccoons
- Informal
A dark mark on the skin showing where clothing does not cover you in the sun
How Tan
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tan for the brown colour of the skin comes from the old verb tan, which meant 'to make leather' using plant bark that turned skins brown. So, getting a tan in the sun is like your skin taking on the brown of tanned leather.