culture vulture

noun
/ˈkʌlt͡ʃə ˌvʌlt͡ʃə/UK/ˈkʌlt͡ʃəɹ ˌvʌlt͡ʃəɹ/US

Etymology

From culture + vulture.

  1. derived from vultur
  2. derived from voutoir
  3. derived from vultur
  4. compounded as culture vulture — “culture + vulture

Definitions

  1. A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts.

    • Around 59th and Lexington, where Dry Dock Savings Bank is located, pickings are lush for the purple-pantsuited culture vulture.
  2. Someone who engages in cultural appropriation

    Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for culture vulture. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA