tanorexic

noun

tan·o·rex·ic ˌta-nə-ˈrek-sik

plural tanorexics

: a person who is obsessed with having and maintaining a very dark tan

According to psychologists familiar with this phenomenon, the typical tanorexic is a young woman. In general, she seldom if ever feels she is tan enough.—

Robert Brody, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 23 June 1991

Tanorexics, it is now well known, are excellent candidates for skin cancer.—

Scott Harris, Springfield (Massachusetts) Union-News, 31 Aug. 1989

tanorexic adjective

Advocates are using the headline-grabbing case of the tanorexic New Jersey mom to push the New York state Senate for approval of a bill banning anyone under 18 from using tanning beds. —

Kenneth Lovett, Daily News (New York), 11 May 2012

She thinks that being slightly tanorexic is about being trendy and beautiful, right here, right now. —

Elyssa Andrus, The Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), 24 June 2002