1.Originally written simply as woot (or WOOT) abreviation of Wu-Tang, specifically referring to the Wu-Tang Ninja Clan (Dungeons and Dragons nonsense based off of the music group) made by Aaron A. of CA in 1997.This was done in order to spam Aaron and his brother with WOOTs over ICQ. Aaron thought it was funny,but Greg hated it. It eventually drove him nuts resorting in him running around EverQuest as his Iksar Monk screaming woot wherever he went,and eventually in him even spamming chat rooms and other on-line games(even Yahoo chess) alike. Also the DM (Dungeon Master) who created this' good friend Hell Fire spammed up Quake2 with it back in 97'.

2.Nonsensical gibberish you can just shout cause it's funny,and gets annoying really fast.

3.Warped into w00t by on-line nerds trying to make sense of 4 people shouting it all over the place, resulting in Quake2 players rationilizing it as We Own (the) Other Team, seeing that it became most fun to shout specifically as players where fragged, or at the end of matches. Also fabricated by EverQuest players to mean "I won the battle" or "I leveled" or some other cool event, due to people just asking Greg,"Hey what does that mean?...it sounds cool..does mean huzzah or victory?", and him only answering with "uh yeah, sure" or with more woots. This eventually evolved to w00t due to sheer bordom of saying it all the time.

4.An obnoxious spam tactic where one types it several times, copies, paste, repeats. This is known specifically as "The Attack Of A Thousand Woots".

Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t".

"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.

See also wOOt, w00t and WOOT

1) An interjection similar to "YAYE!" or "Woohoo!" used to express joy or excitement, usually about some kind of accomplishment. Primarily used by gamers, spreading rapidly to anyone who chats online

Gaming origins: We Owned the Other Team
or Wonderful Loot (Everquest gaming slang)

2) To express agreement

3) As an acronym, can mean Waste of Our Time or Way Out of Topic (online forums) Less common.

A word originating from the old D&D games, was used to express excitement when finding treasure, the player would say "Wow loot!" thus over time turning into "w00t" in the videogame world, as a form of satisfaction or victory..

A leet speak form of saying huzzah or hurray.

It originated from back in the days of MUD games, after killing an opponent loot was a rare find, so if someone found loot they would say "wow loot!". This evolved into "woot" for short which further evolved to simply be a general exclamation of excitement.

Before ALL of that, woot was a happy noise made by certain Monkees and Guinea Pigs when they are happy or content. Net nerds like to take credit for creating stuff that they only adopted. But I know better. I've heard those monkets. And they're happy. woot.

To exclaim excitement

In 1990 we used woot when playing tabletop dice Dungeons and Dragons when we came across good gear or loot.. Now its worked its way into online games and chat speak.

Same sorta meaning, excitment, happy, wow I found someone I wanted or liked.