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culture vulture

noun

Slang.
  1. a person with an excessive or pretentious interest in the arts.



culture vulture

noun

  1. informala person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of culture vulture1

First recorded in 1945–50
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Idioms and Phrases

An individual with a consuming or excessive interest in the arts. For example, A relentless culture vulture, she dragged her children to every museum in town. This slangy term may have been originated by Ogden Nash, who wrote: “There is a vulture Who circles above The carcass of culture” (Free Wheeling, 1931). [1940s]
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"Sinners" is culture vulture bait, laden with multiple meanings and dog-eared history pages, and who can resist a puzzle?

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Co-founder Jerett Wasserman recorded a series of Instagram videos that decried the recalls as retaliation for questioning The Times’ reporting, and suggested the company was the target of “Culture Vulture’s.”

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While he readily concedes that he is no culture vulture himself, Bloomberg sees the arts as an important driver of economic development, which guided his approach to cultural capital projects as mayor.

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Supreme Court and lifelong culture vulture, was a Barbra Streisand fan.

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But one thing I surely developed as a young Jewish culture vulture were the tools to enjoy work by antisemites.

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