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noun
The common urge to defecate when entering a bookstore or library.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: book bowel tendency, book bowels
Antonyms: none provided
History
Named after a Japanese woman who wrote to a magazine about this tendency in 1985.
