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w00t An interjection similar to “Yay!”, as in: “w00t!!!
I just got a raise!” Often used for small victories the speaker dies
not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. Some claim this is a
bastardization of “root”, the highest level of access to a
system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak
equivalent of “root”, and said as an exclamation upon gaining
root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game
as an abbreviation of “wonderful loot”. Still other claim it
on originated on IRC as the “Ewok victory cheer”] Adj.
w00table has the sense of
“cool” or “nifty”. This is one of the few
leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among
hackers.
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