w00t

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.