definition woot
Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, w00t. w00t was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for Wow, loot!. Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.