May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:24 AM

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