"W00t" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2007. Are you one of the geeks who have used this word this year?

"Voters at Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2007 poll have chosen 'w00t' as 2007's most iconic word. M-W says that the word is a gamer's acronym for 'we own the other team', but I'm inclined to think that that's a backronym, a back-formed acronym created to explain a word already in use.

1. w00t (interjection)
expressing joy (it could be after a triumph, or for no reason at all); similar in use to the word "yay"

w00t! I won the contest!", boingboing