"travel bug" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: travel bugs [plural]
Etymology: From the trademark Travel Bug. Head templates: {{en-noun}} travel bug (plural travel bugs)
  1. 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.
    Sense id: en-travel_bug-en-noun-YjJVXwEj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English genericized trademarks, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 91 9 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 86 14 Disambiguation of English genericized trademarks: 81 19 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 87 13
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see travel, bug. Synonyms: wanderlust
    Sense id: en-travel_bug-en-noun-ZeLwcohc

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "Geocaching for Schools and Communities (page 182)",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Christopher Holden, et al: Mobile Media Learning, page 168",
          "text": "Because moving travel bugs is a practice that is only physical in nature—you find the travel bug and then you move it to another geocache—the game's design did not require players to take part in as much conversation as I had hoped.",
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          "text": "After my trip to New Zealand, I caught the travel bug: now I go abroad several times a year."
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