travel bug

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travel bug

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Genericized trademark from Travel Bug.

noun travel bugs

A tag stamped with a number, placed in a geocache (often attached to another item, called a hitchhiker) so that subsequent finders can take it to other caches and track its movement around the world. The teams placed their travel bugs in a geocache and listed the bugs on the geocaching.com Web site […]
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see travel, bug. After my trip to New Zealand, I caught the travel bug: now I go abroad several times a year.
Similar: wanderlust

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@misc{travel_bug_2026,
  title = {travel bug},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/travel%20bug},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}