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  • noun A device emitting ultraviolet radiation used to produce a cosmetic suntan.

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Examples

  • The American Pavilion strikes a cheerfully materialistic note, with its replications of airline seats and a statue draped across a sunbed.

    Setting the Art World Alight Andrew McKie 2011

  • Cancer Research UK found more than one in four sunbed users aged between 18 and 24 said they were unconcerned about the health risks posed by sunbeds.

    Kate Moss agency Storm to raise awareness of sunbed dangers 2012

  • Katie Price pictured on her Botox and four-times-a-week sunbed habit, surprising those who thought her a Pond's cream and dab-of-witch-hazel at night gal.@rickygervais"Good monging everyone."

    Lucy Mangan's pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet 2011

  • Not even a life spent chuffing down 17 packs of Lambert & Butler a day while lying on a sunbed, face slathered in vegetable oil, fresh from a chemical peel, taking occasional breaks only to have one's skin scrubbed with sandpaper, rusty nails and acid will age a person as swiftly as waxing sentimental about objects from their childhood that were, unquestionably, crap.

    The Walkman has gone, and I must move on Hadley Freeman 2010

  • Incidentally, in Essex such fanny art is called a "vajazzle": you get a "bed" (a sunbed), get a vajazzle, get yer teeth bleached "proper white like Melinda Messenger" then you "gah dahn Sugar Hut, see if Kirk's back from Marbella."

    Grace Dent's TV OD Grace Dent 2010

  • Supporting this campaign makes perfect sense as the wellbeing of our models is of paramount importance, and we take a serious approach to their health," said Sarah Doukas, MD of model agency Storm, who famously discovered the milky-skinned Kate Moss when she was still a teenager, and who has a friend who lost her husband to cancer caused, she believes, by sunbed use."

    Kate Moss agency Storm to raise awareness of sunbed dangers 2012

  • However, malignant melanoma cases caused by excessive sun exposure and sunbed use have gone up.

    Cancer diagnoses in 40-59 age group soar 20% in a generation 2011

  • Research published last month by the charity found that more than one in four sunbed users aged between 18 and 24 said they were unconcerned about the health risks posed by sunbeds, while 53% of the same age group believed tanned skin has become more fashionable.

    Kate Moss agency Storm to raise awareness of sunbed dangers 2012

  • Tanya pleads, in whichever bar, office, restaurant or sunbed saloon she's stalked him to, chucking him her trademark satanic glare, turning on a six-inch Roberto Cavalli heel and stropping off.

    Grace Dent's TV OD Grace Dent 2010

  • A nice summary of the slipperiness of Barack Obama and not items that will be covered by the MSM, not when there are stories about Sarah Palin's sunbed to cover.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008

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