kilowarhol
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]kilowarhol (plural kilowarhols)
- 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.
- 2007, Mark Kingwell, Nearest Thing to Heaven, page 40:
- Kitsch versions of the image augur well: we're talking at least a megawarhol icon or better (that's 15 million minutes of fame, which is just over 10,400 days, or about 28.5 years— enough to get you to those standard silver-anniversary retrospectives). No kitsch, no staying power: a hundred kilowarhols or less, a minicon.