Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An ancient English court; originally, the assembly of the men of a township for administering the law of the community. See court-leet.
- n. The district subject to the jurisdiction of a court-leet.
- n. The day on which a court-leet was held; also, the right to hold such a court, which in later times could be granted to a baron.
- n. One portion; a lot.
- n. A list of candidates for any office.
- n. See leat.
- A dialectal form of lite, little.
- To let on; pretend; feign.
- n. A dialectal form of light.
- A dialectal form of light.
Wiktionary
- n. Scotland A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office.
- v. obsolete Simple past of let.
- n. UK, obsolete A regular court in which the certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction.
- n. zoology The European pollock.
- n. Internet slang Abbreviation of leetspeak.
- adj. Of or relating to leetspeak.
- adj. slang Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful.
- adj. slang Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite.
- adj. slang Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- of let, to allow.
- n. Scot. A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office.
- n. (Eng. Hist.) A court-leet; the district within the jurisdiction of a court-leet; the day on which a court-leet is held.
- n. (Zoöl.) The European pollock.
Etymologies
- An aphetic form of elite. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“(Marcus is known online as Winston, or W1n5t0n in leet speak.)”
“Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: the real world made over in leet-speak.”
“That was freakin leet sauce in a jar, good find!! fuzzy”
“The IT Crowd DVDs have just shipped -- with subtitles in leet!”
“I was privileged to consult a little on the show, and I was able to connect Graham with uber-geek Yoz Grahame, who suggested that the disc carry subtitles in leet (or 1337), the letter/number substitution code used by gamers, hackers and other net-dwellers.”
“The movie stars Tom Cruise, a well-known member of and advocate for the cult, and the banner will sport cryptic anti-Scientology messages in leet-speek: Hail Xenu LOL”
“Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing: "The IT Crowd DVDs have just shipped - with subtitles in leet!”
“LONG: Coming up we're going to help you decode new teen slang known as leet speak.”
“They could be a signal of lurking danger, this alphabet soup of online lingo known as leet speak.”
“The number 1337 being nerdspeak for "leet", or elite, I wonder if it was on purpose?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘leet’.
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And the geek shall inherit the Earth
teh, interweb, lolcat, blogosphere, troll, googlewashing, spam, googling, googlewhacking, pwnage, leet, zomg and 12 more...
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Serendipity's Words
defenestration, mercurial, syzygy, wicked, iniquitous, metastable, demimonde, entropic, ephemeral, irreligious, frisbee, manifold and 474 more...
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Discovered Scrabble Words
Oh, that little smiling teacher tile in my Scrabble app. He teaches me so much.
lovage, khaf, tititi, leet, ketol, fon, ono, dunelike, braw, bocci, lutz, fano and 132 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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The History of Cool
Words that mean "cool" around the world and through the ages.
cool, awesome, wild, stylin', groovy, neat, nifty, swell, great, tubular, radical, bitchin' and 188 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Geek Culture
geek, dork, nerd, gafiate, filk, concom, fanboy, fandom, geekosphere, grok, hacker, leet and 26 more...
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Words I Use On A Regular Basis
interesting, skillz, janky, podcast, frag, blog, ninja, open-source, manga, wii, blarney, frood and 15 more...
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tardspeak
ph3@r mY l337 hax0r sp33k
lollerskates, roflcopter, leet, haxor, the internets, artard, failboat, pr0n, pwn, omgwtfbbq, lulz, o rly and 19 more...
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errguitar's Words
interrobang, subpolar gyre, leet, backword, osculate, volksmarch, shank's mare, sprachgefuhl, flivver, purlieus, scree, talus and 24 more...
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pwned
leetspeak, gamer jargon -- especially from world of warcraft -- and beyond.
owned, pwned, gibbed, frag, 1337, leet, hax, llama, ninja, camper, spawn, gank and 9 more...
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michaelnewman's Words
shenanigans, affordances, machinima, bedraggled, fancy-pants, meme, felliniesque, planimetric, macerate, whip pan, videoblog, deposition and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for leet.

bilby Scots - a list of candidates for a job, contract, etc. Dec 26, 2007