leetspeak
noun/ˈliːt.spiːk/
Etymology
From leet + -speak; the former element is from elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.
Definitions
A form of chatspeak characterized most strongly by its alphanumeric substitutions.
- Murg is God [It's "/\/\U|>,g 15 g4\/\/D" in l33tsp33k]
- People associate "l33t-speak" with hackers, so when new hackers start to get into the scene they assume they need to write like that, which perpetuates the belief that hackers use l33t-sp34k.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for leetspeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA