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spray tanning

spray tanning is the alternative form of spray-tanning.

spray tanning is the present participle and gerund of spray tan.

Meaning of spray-tanning

Noun

spray-tanning (uncountable)

  1. The process of applying a spray tan on someone's skin.

Meaning of spray tan

Noun

spray tan (countable and uncountable, plural spray tans)

  1. A tan produced on the skin for cosmetic purposes by applying a chemical mixture (often dihydroxyacetone).
    • After Trump won three straight contests and looked to claim the nomination on Super Tuesday, Florida Senator Marco Rubio decided to fight slime with slime. He taunted Trump over his made-in-China ties and his spray tan.2016 February 29, Ron Fournier, “How to Bully a Bully”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2016
  2. The mixture itself.

Questions about spray tanning

What is spray tanning the alternative form of?
Spray tanning is the alternative form of spray-tanning.

Words near spray tanning in the dictionary

  1. spray paint
  2. spray painted
  3. spray painting
  4. spray paints
  5. spray tan
  6. spray tanning
  7. spray tans
  8. spray-dried
  9. spray-dries
  10. spray-dry
  11. spray-drying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spray tanning (page history and authors); spray-tanning (page history and authors); spray tan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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