Gamer lingo in real life

[Grahamhsu]

antfromtashkent said:

Grahamhsu said:
^I just did a search on woot, I never really thought it had originated from video games...straight from urban dict...

"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.
"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"

"woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)

"Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!' "

whats a "boxen".....?  Sounds painfull...

 

Again from urban

Boxen

"Plural for box or computer. Usually PCs.

My friend and I just fixed a shitload of windows boxen."