pwned

pwned
Past tense. To have seized complete control over something or someone. To render a victim completely helpless and at the absolute mercy of the victor.
It's origin comes from the word owned commonly used in hacker speak to represent complete ownership of a hacked computer system or defacement of a
Website. The variation of spelling (from owned to pwned) is thought to have occurred do typing errors in certain online games. On a computer keyboard the letter p is close in proximity to the letter o , so pwned became a common misspelling. New online gamers seeing this misspelling simply adopted it as the true word for owned.

I pwned you when I took first place in the competition.

Variations: owned, ownz


Dictionary of american slang with examples. .

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