tanning

Verb (1)

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

1. (intransitive, transitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
   • No matter how long I stay out in the sun, I never tan, though I do burn.
2. (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
3. (stative, transitive) To work as a tanner.
4. (informal, transitive) To spank or beat.
   • "Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."1876, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Verb (2)

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

1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive) To kill by gun, to shoot.
   • Step on the wing, see an opp and I'll whack it
     Do it like Super Savage
     Who's the yute I Jet-Li-rise that dots and tan him (whoosh)
     Rise that dots and tan him2019 September 29, Moscow17, “All For The Cause”

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