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spray-tan

spray-tan verb: to apply spray tan on one's skin.

Verb

spray-tan (third-person singular simple present spray-tans, present participle spray-tanning, simple past and past participle spray-tanned)

  1. (intransitive) To apply spray tan on one's skin.
    • That's something to consider if you do decide to spray tan before your next Zoom meeting, influencer video, or if you want to really get into character as the sun-kissed John F. Kennedy to your new girlfriend’s Marilyn Monroe.2022 May 6, Cam Wolf, “Did Pete Davidson Get a Spray Tan? And Should I?”, in GQ
  2. (transitive) To apply spray tan on.

Forms of spray-tan

third-person singular presentspray-tans
present participlespray-tanning
past participlespray-tanned
pastspray-tanned
alternative formspray tan

Questions about spray-tan

What does spray-tan mean?
Spray-tan means to apply spray tan on one's skin.
What part of speech is spray-tan?
Spray-tan is a verb.
What is the past tense of spray-tan?
The past tense of spray-tan is spray-tanned.

Words near spray-tan in the dictionary

  1. spray-dries
  2. spray-dry
  3. spray-drying
  4. spray-on
  5. spray-ons
  6. spray-tan
  7. spray-tanned
  8. spray-tanning
  9. spray-tans
  10. sprayability
  11. sprayable

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