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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>w00t</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="next" href="wabbit.html" title="wabbit"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">w00t</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../W.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="wabbit.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="w00t"/><dt xmlns="" id="w00t"><b>w00t</b></dt></dt><dd><p>An interjection similar to “<span class="quote">Yay!</span>”, as in: “<span class="quote">w00t!!!
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I just got a raise!</span>” Often used for small victories the speaker dies
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not expect to be of special interest to anyone else. Some claim this is a
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bastardization of “<span class="quote">root</span>”, the highest level of access to a
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system (particularly UNIX), originated by script kiddies as a 133tspeak
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equivalent of “<span class="quote">root</span>”, and said as an exclamation upon gaining
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root access. Others claim it originated in the Everquest multiplayer game
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as an abbreviation of “<span class="quote">wonderful loot</span>”. Still other claim it
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on originated on IRC as the “<span class="quote">Ewok victory cheer</span>”] Adj.
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<span class="firstterm">w00table</span> has the sense of
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“<span class="quote">cool</span>” or “<span class="quote">nifty</span>”. This is one of the few
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leet-speak coinages to have crossed over into non-ironic use among
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