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leet speek

commonly refered to as 733+ 533|<

the writing of words and phrases using all non-letters.
1)/|/|1|2|20|2 /|/|1|2|20|2 0/|/ 73# |/|/411, |/|/#0 15 73# 1337357 0|= 7#3/|/| 411 (leet speek)

Mirror mirror on teh wall, who is teh leetest of them all(normal speek)

2)\/\/00+(leet speek)

woot(normal speek)
by Menlo Park October 21, 2005
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Originating in the early 1980's, leet speak was first used by hackers as a way to prevent their websites/newsgroups from being found by simple keyword searches.
Leet speak grew and became popular in online games such as Doom in the early 1990's as a way of suggesting that you were a hacker (h4x0r), and therefore to be feared.
Leet, or 1337, is a short form of "elite," commonly used by video gamers to suggest that they are skilled.
Leet: l337
Hacker: h4x0r
skills: s|<1llz
Own: Pwn
by Jess (and her m4a1) June 9, 2005
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When the 1st l33t sp34k hit the scene in the very early 80's it didn't use all the annoying ?|}{)\ and crap they put as subs for letters today. It just occasionally subbed some numbers for letters so that normal searches and bots, ect. would not pick up the pattern. It has been changed into something entirely stupid and unreadable by wannabe, lazy kids today. Same with lol and rotflmao and such. Been around since 300 baud n00bs.....
If j00 w3r3 r34lly l33t j00d kn0w it n00b.

This sentence would have been a bit overkill even then for leet speak. Most would have written it like:

If you w4s l33t u'd kn0w noob.....
by Derius December 7, 2006
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by keyshaw October 18, 2004
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The practice of substituting any number of letters or symbols for actual letters coupled with purposefully phonetically mis-spelling words while chatting in order to make your chat unreadable to all but the "elite," or, all the other dorks you are chatting with.
by Eric Seven September 29, 2004
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Leet Speak

Despite what many people think, leet speak is not when you make letters with non-letter characters, like

| /\/\ |_33+ 2 |)00|)!!!

Though the non-letter characters used to make letters method is used occasionally, it is primarily made up of numbers acting as letters, like so.

y0 j00!!111 u c m3 0wnz0rz dat n00b v3r1ly ?? lolololololololo

Note that j00 is often used in place of "you" and many words end with a 0rz or a z. Also, letters aren't ALWAYS used, just when someone feels like being "l337". Leet Speak originated as a way for getting vulgar words (such as "u r fuxx0rz d00d!!) through filters in chat rooms and games.
(Many examples are listed above)
by Demonic Crusader July 21, 2004
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a small yet cool program that lets you speak 1337 language. n00bs can look non n00b.

it can be found at

http://ryanross.net/leet/
D00D J00 ar3 h3ll@ LEe+ A+ WRI+in9 leET L4Ngu493

^translated with leet speak generator
by nerjo September 1, 2008
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