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noun Slang.
a person with an excessive or pretentious interest in the arts.
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Origin of culture vulture
First recorded in 1945ā50
Words nearby culture vulture
culture medium, culture pattern, culture shock, culture specific syndrome, culture trait, culture vulture, culture war, culturist, culturology, culturomics, cultus
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How to use culture vulture in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for culture vulture
culture vulture
noun
informal a person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts
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Other Idioms and Phrases with culture vulture
culture vulture
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: āThere is a vulture Who circles above The carcass of cultureā (Free Wheeling, 1931). [1940s]
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