wake relatives 

Relatives you never see until there is a funeral in the family & they show up to act greedy, stir discontent within the family, or stuff their faces with as much free food as they can at the post funeral reception.

When granpap died, all the wake relatives we hadn't seen since gramma's funeral began showing up to see who would inherit what, to point fingers at who caused granpap's cancer, and to stuff their faces at the buffet afterwards.

wake relatives by Ihor Ivanenko May 25, 2010