Etymology

culture vulture

cult·ure vult·ure

Today it means: A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts. Full definition →

First used early 20th c.
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The story

From culture + vulture.

First known use, by meaning

  • from early 20th c. A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts.
  • from c. 1990 Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.