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tan

adjective

a tan waistcoat:

yellowish brown, brownish yellow, light brown, pale brown, tawny.

verb

1 using a sunscreen means that you won't burn before you tan:

become suntanned, take a suntan/tan, brown, go/become brown, bronze.

2 informal if Mickey so much as touches a fishing net, I'll tan his hide:

thrash, beat, wallop, belt, strap, spank, whip, lash, leather, cane, flog, flail, flagellate, horsewhip, birch, switch, flay;

informal give someone a hiding, lam, larrup.

tan (1) Oxford Dictionary of English