Webster's new word of the year is.... W00T. (Notice that the "O"s aren't Os, but zeros!!) It's meaning, you ask...?
Generally used to express a form of joy. The word originated in competitive online gaming as an acronym for "we own other team." The term has since adopted a more general meaning. as in: w00t we just smashed that team hard.
History: The current-day use of the word w00t stems from hackers in the early to mid 80's. While communicating with each other groups of hackers such as Razor1911 would need lingo which nobody else would be able to understand to express milestones in their hacking. One such milestone was gaining root access, but the term rooted or "gained root access" was easily understood so the term was changed to w00t to help disguise. Because of the difficulty of "rooting" many times the term w00t would be much in a celebratory tone. It later evolved to simply be a celebratory remark rather than a hacking milestone.
(taken from the urban dictionary online.)
I don't think that I'll be using this word any day in the near future. It's weird. Just plain weird.
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I admit I say and write woot all the time. But, I must be old school, because I use o's... :P
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