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culture vulture
noun
- a person with an excessive or pretentious interest in the arts.
culture vulture
noun
- informal.a person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts
Word History and Origins
Origin of culture vulture1
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]Example Sentences
If my experience is any indication, the process is going to be a challenge for culture vultures.
This entails being more the culture vulture, exposing yourself to unique influences.
This makes you quite the culture vulture, wanting to expose yourself to artistic, culinary and socially fringed experiences.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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