Permatan

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A perpetual tan. colloquial

    "His permatan, and his vanity, were his weakness. I needed a picture of him, and it needed to be as unflattering as possible. Moving my train of thought on a bit, I reasoned that he must also be a lover of natural sunbathing."

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"His permatan, and his vanity, were his weakness. I needed a picture of him, and it needed to be as unflattering as possible. Moving my train of thought on a bit, I reasoned that he must also be a lover of natural sunbathing."

Etymology

From perma- + tan.

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