Meanings
- The amount of something that is expected to last for or be produced in one hour.
Weightless as angels, we float an aimless celestial hoursworth through spectacular submarinity
1994, Lee Montgomery, Mary Hussmann, David Hamilton, Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction, →ISBN2 more examples
This opportunity I snatched at eagerly, there being nothing else on in Finland at the time apart from a hotel video of The Lavender Hill Mob apparently dubbed by tree frogs with no adenoids, and was thus Saabed across several hoursworth of englaciated ruts to a vast gelid tract, equidistant from Pokka and Lokka, on which grew a million-odd trees.
1984, Alan Coren, Bumf, Robson Books LimitedSir, Despite the increased cost, we do like to flesh out our feature film programmes to give our patrons a full two hoursworth.
1987, Film
Origin
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