to pwn
- verb
- /poʊn/
- Slang
- One need only see Cinnamon playing a submissive woman who is dismissed as mere eye candy, walking away with a slight smile when the bad guys' backs were turned; she had just completely pwned everyone in the room.
- get pwned
Examples
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These guys are getting pwned Right, playing XBOX that's what's going to pop on my med school application.
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In the last match, I really pwned my opponent with my superior strategy.
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However, you were pwned before you posted.
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This dude's about to get pwned!
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27th - LOL, we pwned them.
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Oh, by the way, the 7/7 conspiracists got pwned!
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Certainly, the average 8-year-old gamer has Aristotle, as they say, pwned in certain areas, and vice versa.
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Seeing an eighty-year-old man around his Xbox 360 yelling "noob" then turning around and saying, "Yeah, I was pwning noobs like that before you were born!"
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He was so confident in his skills, but it didn’t take long for me to pwn him in the game.
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After practicing for weeks, she finally pwned the rival team in the tournament.
Synonyms
To beat someone easily in a game or fight
To beat someone easily in a game or contest
To beat someone very badly in a game or match
To beat someone very easily and completely in a game or contest
To beat someone in a game or challenge
To beat someone easily in a game or contest
How Dominant
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- Slang
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pwn began as a keyboard typo of own when gamers hit the 'p' key by mistake, and it quickly became slang for completely beating someone in a game. So to pwn someone in play is to 'defeat' or dominate them.