milliwarhol

English

Etymology

From milli- +‎ warhol.

Noun

milliwarhol (plural milliwarhols)

1. A unit of fame equal to one thousandth of a warhol, or 0.9 seconds of fame.
   • 1997 October 2, Cullen Murphy, “Too Much of a Good Thing”, in Slate‎^[1]:

     A milliwarhol, or about nine-tenths of a second of fame, might appropriately be named after the tyke whose rescue became a brief focus of attention last summer after he fell through the hole of an outhouse.