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Definition Argument - Essay Example The thought of a private word used in my generation is awesome. If an older person gets online, they will not know what woot means. The term "w00t" (pronounced, and sometimes spelled, "woot"; IPA pronunciation: [wuË t]) is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, most often expressed via the Internet. (Wikipeida 2006) 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. (URBAN dictionary 2006) The current-day use of the word w00t stems from hackers in the early to mid 80s.While communicating with each other groups of hackers such as Razor1911 would need lingo which nobody else would be able to understand to express milestones in their hacking. One such milestone was gaining root access, but the term rooted or "gained root access" was easily understood so the term was changed to w00t to help disguise. Because of the difficulty of "rooting" many times the term w00t would be much in a celebratory tone. It later evolved to simply be a celebratory remark rather than a hacking milestone. (URBAN Dictionary 2006) One game on the Internet is â€Å"World of Warcraft†. I enjoy playing this game. Whenever someone wins, they furiously typed woot. Even though at first I did not know what it meant, I would reciprocate. Eventually woot has become part of my online vocabulary. Woot became a word with meaning to me. Even if it is not in the dictionary, woot is real to me. That makes it a word to me, but not everyone plays games online. The reason I chose and like woot is its conveyance of my exact emotion, even though it is absent from the dictionary. How do you explain the ecstasy of defeating unseen people on the Internet? I know all of my friends’ screen names, but most I only know online. That feeling cannot be articulated by the â€Å"real world’s† dictionary. All of gamers my age use this