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l33tsp34k 

1. Elite speak.
2. Internet slang language involving the replacement of letters with numbers and/or symbols, specifically to discourage and confuse new members of the community (See newbies or n00bs)
1. Do you know how to l33tsp34k?
2. j00 5u}{0Rz @ l33tsp34k (you suck at elite speak)
l33tsp34k by Geoff March 15, 2003

l33tsp33k 

A dialect of typing that uses numbers and symbols to replace letters, and many misspellings. The name is a bastardization of "elite speak", as it was originally popularized to "look cool" and seperate one from word=noobnoobs/word.
Examples of such replacements used in leetspeak are: 1's or |'s for l's and/or i's, 5's or z's for s's, @'s or 4's for a's, \/\/'s for w's, etc. People who use l33tspeak usually have their own form, using their own combinations of replacements and misspellings.
A popular form of l33tsp33k uses random capitalizations of letters that are not (or cannot be, in some cases) replaced.
Nowadays computer geeks, and those who spend much of their day in word=chat roomchat rooms/word or word=forumforums/word will use intermittent l33tsp33k to joke around with one another; true l33tsp33kers are rarely seen around the internet anymore.
j00 R 4 1337 h4><><0rZ
l33tsp33k by The Zim Bob Way January 27, 2003

l33tsp33k 

leet or elite speak, an almost dead internet language originally used by real hackers to communicate, now used by people trying to make themselves look cool by typing in a language hardly anyone can read, here is a quick tutorial on how to speak 1337.

1= L
2= Z (not often used)
3= E
4 = A
5= S
6= G
7= T
8 = B(uncommon)
9 = G
0 = O
|< = K
|2 = R
( = C
+ = T
|\| = N
`/ = Y
>< = X
$ = S (rare)
\/\/ = W
|) = D
words often shortened replacing for example er with z0r, hacker becomes hackz0r or |-|4kz0r
|20x0|2 = rockz0r = amasing,good ect....
|<4|\|'+ j00 |234|) 7|-|12!?
(can't you read this!?)
l33tsp33k by Shujiro July 7, 2005

l33tsp33k 

l33tspeek is a term that came about with the early hacker, sometimes called elite speak. Someone who spells in l33tsp33k with pride is someone who can type it as fast as normal words. There are many other spellings, such as the number based 13375P33|< or the rarely seen |337zp33|{.
7|-|15 |5 3><7R3/\/\3 |3375P33|{


Translation: This is extreme l33tsp33k
Notice that there are only two actual characters used, r and p.
l33tsp33k by Morgan "|0|{!" January 18, 2004

l33tsp34|< 

The language people are speaking when they t4|k l1k3 7h15. Spoken by the l33t. Produced by substituting numbers or charachters (or groups thereof) for letters. "A" becomes "4", or "/\" or "/-\". "B" becomes "8" or "|3", and so on and so forth. Some substitutions are mandatory: When speaking l33t, one does no use "you", but "j00". Similarly, "0"s should be substituded for "o"s whereever possible.
STFU Name j00 n00b j00're teh gh3y l4m3r phukk3r! 3y3 4m l33t!!!1
l33tsp34|< by Deuce on Guard August 31, 2003

l33tSp34k 

The act of exchanging letters with numbers and other various symbols: don't even begin to try to understand it, it's a geek thing
573p|-| 15 4 l33t h4x0r
l33tSp34k by Billy Bishoff June 14, 2003
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