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A chess piece of lowest value that may move forward one square at a time or two squares in the first move, kill enemies with bullshit aimbot K98 headshots, capture other pieces only on a one-space diagonal forward move,and be promoted to any piece other than a king upon reaching the eighth rank.
pawn by Orbit August 22, 2003
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The white version of a token

I.E. Every Mcdonalds commercial.
they tried to make that pawn look cool in that Mcdonalds commercial.
pawn by BOSOX2007 June 9, 2009
1) Expendable frontliner.

2) Next-to-useless chess piece.

3) to trade in one's belongings for cash, hoping to buy them back when in better financial shape (or if unwanted, not at all).
You are my pawn

All eight of my pawns are gone and all they did was take a rook

I pawned in your son to buy a gat.
pawn by Gumba Gumba April 7, 2004
To lose all dignity in a vain attempt to conciliate financial debt by temporarily selling one's most valued possessions to good peoples for pennies on the dollar.
"Yeh, I wanna pawn dis ring." (or "Yes good sir, I would like to borrow some money in exchange for my ring.")
pawn by Big Daddy January 28, 2004
verb- Full spelling of "pwn" an internet term (which has migrated in some cases to real life) referencing humiliating defeat. Such defeats usually come due to a lack of skill of the pwn'd when challenging the pwn'er.

The use of the word references the fact The one who was pawned was so utterly humiliated by the pawner that the pawned belongs to the pawner from now on. The Pawner however, esteems them of no worth and instead chooses to sell them off. Thus the defeated has been "pwn'ed"
j00 s|_|xx0|2. | PWN j00.

How did the test go? I was Pawned
pawn by Master T January 9, 2005
Jose Raul Capablanca pwned Emanuel Lasker in their World Championship match in 1921
pawn by Bob882 July 1, 2004