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Someone who collects passport stamps the way other people collect regrets
means A person who travels widely and frequently, visiting many different countries as a matter of habit or lifestyle.
from A 19th-century compound of 'globe' and 'trotter' — one who trots across the globe — built on the older sense of 'trot' as a brisk, steady pace. It emerged alongside the rise of mass tourism and round-the-world travel, when circling the earth went from epic feat to fashionable pastime.
- origin era
- coined 1870s for circus performers who toured globally
- etymology
- literally one who trots across the globe
- modern tell
- luggage worn, home address debatable
- not synonym
- tourist buys souvenirs, globetrotter buys one-way tickets