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Leet
Definitions
- 1 Of or relating to leetspeak.
- 2 Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful. slang
- 3 Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite. slang
- 4 Awesome, typically to describe a feat of skill; cool, sweet. slang
"Powered by leetness! You can have the leetest hardware imaginable in your gaming rig, but it won't matter if you run it with a cheap power supply."
- 1 A surname from Old English.
- 1 A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. Scotland
- 2 A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this jurisdiction. British, obsolete
- 3 The European pollock. UK
"The whiting pollock sometimes, par excellence is styled pollock only. On the Yorkshire coast it is called a leet, and in Scotland a lythe."
- 4 A place where roads meet or cross; intersection obsolete
- 5 Abbreviation of leetspeak. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, dated, uncountable
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- 6 Alternative form of leat (“watercourse”). alt-of, alternative
- 1 simple past of let form-of, obsolete, past
Etymology
From Scots leet, leit, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French lite, litte, variant of liste (“list”); or from Old Norse leiti, hleyti (“a share, portion”) (compare Old English hlēt (“share, lot”)); or an aphaeretic shortening of French élite.
From Old English lēt, past tense of lǣtan (“to let”).
Originated 1400–50 from late Middle English lete (“meeting”), from Anglo-Norman lete and Medieval Latin leta (Anglo-Latin), possibly from Old English ġelǣte (“crossroads”).
Jamieson mentions the alternative spellings lyth, lythe, laid, and laith, and connects it to a verb lythe (“to shelter”), as it "is frequently caught ... in deep holes among the rocks".
From Middle English lete, from Old English ġelǣt, ġelǣte, from Proto-Germanic *galētą, *lētą. More at leat.
Apheretic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.
Apheretic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.
Topographic surname for someone who lived near a road junction, from Old English ġelǣte (“intersection, crossroads”).
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