Leet

//liːt// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to leetspeak.
  2. 2
    Possessing outstanding skill in a field; expert, masterful. slang
  3. 3
    Having superior social rank over others; upper class, elite. slang
  4. 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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Old English.
Noun
  1. 1
    A portion or list, especially a list of candidates for an office; also the candidates themselves. Scotland
  2. 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. 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. 4
    A place where roads meet or cross; intersection obsolete
  5. 5
    Abbreviation of leetspeak. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, dated, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Alternative form of leat (“watercourse”). alt-of, alternative
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of let form-of, obsolete, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Old English lēt, past tense of lǣtan (“to let”).

Etymology 3

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”).

Etymology 4

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".

Etymology 5

From Middle English lete, from Old English ġelǣt, ġelǣte, from Proto-Germanic *galētą, *lētą. More at leat.

Etymology 6

Apheretic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.

Etymology 7

Apheretic form of elite, respelled according to leetspeak conventions.

Etymology 8

Topographic surname for someone who lived near a road junction, from Old English ġelǣte (“intersection, crossroads”).

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