w00t

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w00t - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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.