Derived from "elite", used to express satisfaction or excellence. Known to online circles (most popular amongst gamers) as an elevated status in something or someone. Also gave way to "leet-speak" which uses miss-matched characters, instead of letters, to form sentence structure. Leet-speak has no general form, and is left open to the translator's imagination when written.
"leet"
"l33t"
"1337"
"j00 n00b5 4|23 n0 m4tch 4 meh l33tn3$$!!1"
"0 \/\/ /\/ 3 |) \/\/ | *|* |-| 3 4 $ '/ !!!1!1"
by sir_ralphie May 21, 2005
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1) A small creature in the game "Anarchy Online", commonly used for shooting practise

2) A form of internet slang, replacing letters for numbers, originally derrived from the word "elite"
1) *character name* is attacked by a Leet

2) 7H15 15 1337
by Ruku October 13, 2004
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leet or |_33+ is the language used by hackers
|-|4<|{3|^ 4 3\/4 (translation from leet: Hacker 4 ever)
by Xiinazz February 24, 2007
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In no fewer words...
You have to be a 'leet' interweb expert to say leet.
Use this if you'r a tosspot.
I can hack mainframes, I am leet.
by Elite-not-leet June 16, 2003
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Often used as sarcasm or to humor somebody else when one person describes to another a drastic event that the second person could care less about.
Guy_01: "oh my god dude, I just won the lottery!"

Guy_02: "leet"
by Sess0r December 29, 2004
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to be "elite", in only a computer sense. to use on the streets would not be appropriate.
"dude i just hacked microsoft.com, i'm leet"
by x[zer0] July 31, 2003
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