1337

[Sarah]

Hacker Sp33k for leet, or elite. Originating from 31337 eleet, the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult, a hacker group, to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice, a notorious hacking program.

[Tanya Shivari]

n. 1. Nestled between 1336 and 1338, 1337 is commonly known as a number, or for the more advanced; an integer
2. Often misused to satisfy a lamens ego, the self-proclaimed 1337 will misuse the title, pretending to hold Xtr3m H4x0r capabilties while in fact masturbating to preteen beastiality at 2:00 AM with baggy eyes; anonymously hassling n00bs with better things to do than kill their babies over mindrot such as Everquest and Warcraft. See also colon debris and queefstain

[Sarah]

A language in which numbers and symbols are put together to look like letters. Some people create their own 1337 [letters] and it makes them look more 1337 by fellow 1337-speakers. Here is an alphabet of 1337 letters I know and have created:

A: 4 or l\ or ^ or @ or /\ or /-
B. l3 or 8 or ß or ]3 or l:
( or < or or ¢
l) or l> or ])
E:3 or £
F: l= or # or ƒ
G:6 or 9
H: # or l-l or (-) or !-! or }-{ or }{ or l l or ) ( or ! ! or } {
L: 1 or ! or ][
J: _l or /
K: l< or l( or l{ or l<=
L: l or ! or 1
M: l/l or //\ or l\l\ or ^^
N: l/l or //
O: 0 or () or <> or * or ø or Ó or °
P: l* or l> or |D or l^ or l
Q:

[Donald Trump]

one thousand three hundred and thirty seven

(i do know the true meaning)

[Rihanna]

Once used by the hacker community as sort of a sub-culture language, ANYONE using this type of speak in the present day in age is either:

A) A clueless net newbie who somehow thinks its still cool to speak this way.

A veteren net user who uses it to parody the type of people mentioned in example A.

[Tina]

1337 is the language of hackers and newbies across the internet. Also, the words in 1337 are usually short(ie are becomes r) and intentionally spelt wrong(ie the becomes teh, this is most common with e switching places and os becoming ps)
the mostly complete translation chart(exluding unicode characters, ie
A=4 /-\ @ ^ /
B=8 ]3 ]8 |3 |8
C=( {
D=[) [} |) |} |> [>
E=3
F*=# |=
G=6 9 (>
H=# |-| (-) )-( }{ {-} /-/ -
I=1 ! ][ |
J**=| j
K=|< |{
L=1 |_
M=//\ |/| [/]
N=// || []
O=0 ()
P=|D |* |>
Q=0,
R=|2 |? |-
S=5
T=7 + ][
U=() || \ //
V=/
W=// |/| [/]
X**=>< }{ X
Y=/ %
Z**=2 z
Common mispellings:
the = teh
that = taht
take = taek
own = pwn
you = joo
dude = jood
common phonetic replacements(always used in true 1337):
f = ph
ck == xx
*there is no F in true 1337, it is replaced by the ph phonetic in true 1337
**acceptable when not replaced by a symbol

[Donald Trump]

1337. Originally used by hackers to avoid simple net searches that would turn up, for example, I am an elite hacker.

Instead hackers would say 1 4|/| 4|| 31337 |-|4x0|2.

31337 was later shortened to 1337.

Now 1337 used mainly by the gaming community (also in chatrooms) to mean an especially skilled player.

[Jessica]

Pronounced Leet, short for Elite. The original phrase was 31337, or Elite, referring to the best hackers. It is still used today by some of the good hackers, but the word has been picked up and overused by so many losers and posers that its meaning has been corrupted.

[Britney]

The number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop.

[Couch Potatoe]

usage: most commonly used for people who dont know what 1337 is about and think it is cool

it was actually used in usergroups where content including things such as hacker were censored or deleted using programmed filters. using 1337 was used to get past these filters and since there are so many forms of a word using 1337, they had to give up.

[Dave Paprocki]

1337 was the year the [hundred years war] started making an obscure [factoid] a totally useless piece of gamer [common knowledge].

[Jessica]

Leet//1337: (most commonly 1337 but often also [leetspeak], [leetspeek], l33t5p34k, or l33t) from the phonetic form of the word elite, is a cipher, or novel form of [English spelling]. It is characterized by the use of non-alphabetic characters to stand for letters bearing a superficial resemblance, and by a number of spelling changes such as the substitution of z for final s and x for (c)ks. [Leetspeak] is traditionally used on the Internet and other online communities, such as bulletin board systems. Leetspeak is commonly used by hackers, crackers, script kiddies, and gamers.
----However, leetspeak is not popular amongst all hackers. Many consider it a pointless [affectation], and as it has become widely used it is less useful as a way of showing membership of an elite group. It is nonetheless a cultural phenomenon well-known amongst hackers and many other Internet users.
----Certain factions maintain that true leetspeak is spelled correctly, with the exceptions described above. They do not consider the use of extreme short forms (such as b for be, or u for you) as leetspeak; instead, they refer to it by such terms as [AOL speak]. This is because they associate such habits with users who use ISPs like AOL, which is associated with newness and therefore not considered elite. Another convention sometimes associated with leetspeak or Internet chatting is capitalizing every other letter (LiKe ThIs), sometimes called [studlycaps] or stickycaps. A similar habit involves capitalizing every letter except for vowels (LiKe THiS).