Every now and then, whenever somebody hears something exciting, they’ll yell or write “woot!” Like that’s a sound of excitement, like screaming “yeah!” “that’s awesome!” or “way to go, champ!”
Now I just don’t use that word. It’s just not in my vocabulary.
There are two types of people’s in this world: those who use “woot” and those who don’t.
I’m not a “Woot” guy.
I don’t know where it came from. The only thing I can think of is, possibly, from this ditty from 1993.
“Whoot There It Is”: http://youtu.be/aBwvFBxf_Eg
Who knew that the group 95 South was so influential?
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Ok so I’m going to let my nerd light shine here but I’m pretty sure the exclamation woot comes from the gaming community. Woot is often written w00t with two zeros, I only know this because I may or may not have played world of warcraft and other online games many years ago. Also I think you’re thinking of “Whoomp There It Is” by Tag Team from 1993, Whoot There It Is just a rip off of the original song. Here’s the video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-FPimCmbX8
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Wasn’t sure which was the original, whoot or whoomp
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Well being an old, tired Brit I say hurrah!
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Cheers
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😉
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🙂 I never heard that expression. I need to go out more!!
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I think Vicki from Housewives of Orange County brought it back. Woot! Woot! Come on it’s kind of catchy? 🙂
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I just can’t get into it
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Hard for me to remember a time where I used “woot”.
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Amen brother
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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.
Source: Urban Dictionary.com
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Thanks
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