Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

travel bug

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English

Syllables: trav-el bug
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see travel, bug.

Example Sentences

"The teams placed their travel bugs in a geocache and listed the bugs on the geocaching.com Web site […]"
"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."
"After my trip to New Zealand, I caught the travel bug: now I go abroad several times a year."

Etymology

Genericized trademark from Travel Bug.

Inflected Forms

travel bugs (plural)

Synonyms

wanderlust

Questions

What does travel bug mean?: 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.
Where does travel bug come from?: Genericized trademark from Travel Bug.

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