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A dialect used either by people who think they are cool, or hackers (and people pretending to be hackers.) Involves replacing letters with numbers and/or symbols that look like them (and sometimes don't), and often mispelling, changing and abbreviating words. (SoMeTiMeS wRiTtEn LiKe ThIs) Is usually barely readable, and sometimes incoherent.

see npor
0mg y0u ar3 l33t man!!!
leet by npor April 12, 2005
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Abreviated form of the word "elite" often used in chatrooms and message boards; though mainstream popularized by the game Quake, where the l337 routinely fragged the hell out of lamers (unLee7 web-vermin). The "language", as it were, is generally characterized by the phonetic misspelling of words and replacement of various letters with numbers and symbols.
1|>|-| j00 (4|\|'7 |234|) 7|-|15, `/005 |\|07 L33+ 817(|-|
leet by stryph November 27, 2003
A word emo/mainstream posers use without knowing its meaning
check out my converses, LEET!!!!!!
leet by The_Dark_Side May 8, 2005
(n). A *hypocritical* form of internet lingo and a result of Americans and others who decided to bastardize the English language even further- consider it the nerd's Ebonics. Commonly used by "n00b"-bashing, forum-threading, ninja-obsessive elitist gamers and anime zealots across the land who *often complain about TeEnY BoPpEr LiNgO*.
Warning: If you are able to read hard-core leet without squinting or muttering curses under your breath, it's about time you put down the chopsticks and get a life.
Here's some leet for ya: I'll "pwn" "j00" with my "n1nj4" skills. After I shove the blade of an ice skate down my throat.
leet by a name September 19, 2008
An internet/gaming language derived from a hacker group's code language. that group exploited a hole in system security many years back. They would mainly use the port number 31337, ELEET, ELITE Basically showing they were elites at the time in the feild of hacking. Now L33TSpeach is used by any person who plays CS consistantly, or reads Megatokyo.
j00 4r3 4 f00 f0r |\|07 k|\|0w1|\|g 1337 5P34K!
leet by KilikMatsumoto April 8, 2005
Commonly used type of chatting or typing on the internet used by kids who think they are hackers.
13 Year old Billy comes home from school and goes on an internet chatroom.

"1 4M §0 1337. 1 H4X0R Y0U!"
leet by Justin Austin January 19, 2005