It’s Merriam-Webster’s online Word of the Year (as voted by visitors to its Web site), but do you know what “w00t” means? According to the dictionary, it “first became popular in competitive online gaming forums as part of what is known as l33t (‘leet,’ or ‘elite’) speak — an esoteric computer hacker language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters.” And it’s an expression of gaming joy, as in “we owned the other team.” Find out what words round out the top 10.
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