Edited sentence: ", "woohoo, loot", or "wonderful loot".'Woot' sound that the character makes in the game Quake II when jumping up and down.(There It Is)" (a month earlier, 95 South  had released a song, "Whoot, There It Is," with obvious similarity).(There is some evidence suggesting that the reason "We Own The Other Team" is associated with w00t at all, is due to the explanation on the former Microsoft page; the page has been ridiculed on the internet several times and the original "kidtalk" page had the acronym on W00t removed).Acronym for "Waste of Our Time," that confused sarcasm for excitement.Acronym for "Win Over Other Team", or in the original Quake servers as "We Owned the Other Team" or "We Own Other Team".Also spelled "wewt".As a type of onomatopoeia, reflecting the rising sound of a siren or klaxon.As a vocal expression, perhaps a portmanteau of "woo" and "hoot".Co-opted in the 1990's in dance clubs from 1970's disco chant: (beat) (beat) "Woop(t), Woop," a la a klaxon or siren.From MUD video games, meaning "wow, loot.I got 'da Land.In 1993, Tag Team released a hip-hop song , "Whoomp.In the hacking/cracking scene, the administrative account on Unix-like systems is usually named "root".One of the aims in cracking a system of this type is gaining "root" access, and hence full control of the system.Popularized by the users associated with The LoIL and the S8G.The games/cracking scene usage of the word w00t seem of later origin than the vocal expression.The oldest references on Usenet to w00t date from 1996, woot can be found as early as 1994 ("Woot.This used to be the explanation on this page about Leetspeak, but has since been changed; the explanation can still be found at this page.Under this derivation "w00t" is a leetspeak corruption of the word "root", used as a general exclamation of victory.• With use, the meaning of the word has expanded to include: mild surprise, joy, happiness and acceptance