kilowarhol

English

Etymology

kilo- +‎ warhol

Noun

kilowarhol (plural kilowarhols)

1. A unit of fame equal to 1000 warhols, or 15,000 minutes of fame (about 10.42 days).
   • 1997 October 2, Cullen Murphy, “Too Much of a Good Thing”, in Slate‎^[1]:

     A thousand warhols could be a kilowarhol or, perhaps, a jewell, after Richard Jewell, the man who generated news reports for months despite having failed to participate in the bombing at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Usage notes

• While kilowarhols are traditionally used to measure fame, they can also be used to measure time in intervals of 15,000 minutes.