pwn

Dates back to the 60s at MIT. Although the meaning remains the same it was not a typo. It was used competitivly by programers working on chess AI. When one out programmed the others he would refer to himself as King and the others as pawns. It started being used on Fido Net across the BBS world before internet went public, although it was used on the internet between university's at the time.

Def: To PWN or Pawn someone/something means to remove its status, to be made unimportant. It means that you have proved yourself better than another.

Heavily used in Online gameing community.

I just PWN'd you in that duel.

That item PWNs anything else.

by Very Old Timer August 17, 2007

PWN

The total shut down or domination of a person, place, or thing. Pwn came from the word owned, which came from the word owned, which came from the word own, which originated from the word... cat. PWN has become one of the most frequently used words throughout the world. For example when someone or something is tricked, fooled, made a fool, was and now is a fool, punched in the face, hit with a frying pan, or is a moron.

Australia: You just got pwned, mate.
Southern America: Yall just got pwned.
Japan: Pwnpwn you!

by xxxxxxxmagicalxmexxxxxxx August 17, 2010

Pwn

Started with a spelling error in Warcraft where a message that was supposed to say "Player has been owned" was mis-spelled to "Player has been pwned"

It's spread from there, taking on different forms such as pwnd pwnage pwns or pwnd

1) used in a game when someone has totally pwnd, usually against an inexperienced or less experienced player.

2) used to describe an epicly amazing item

3) used by computer nerds who cant think of anything else to say to diss someone else's mom.

1) "dude, u ttly pwnd that n00b"
2) "omfg! that cape is so pwnage!
3) "I pwned ur mom last night! Stfu noob!"

by Asmonder May 13, 2009

pwn

To completely dominate an opponent, usually in video games.

To beat beyond recognition.

To make someone your bitch.

Often used with the slang "Noob"

I pwn Rick because he is a noob.

Rick is a total noob at everything, so i pwn him.

by M.D.S. September 13, 2005

pwn

The Welsh / Cornish spelling of "poon".

"I'm going to town to see if I can get a little pwn."

by Steeplejack March 16, 2010

pwn

This originated from people misspelling "own." Own is a verb. It is used in online video games. Usually in FPS or RTS games when someone is killed or beaten in a game by another person in the game. If you tell someone you just killed, "You just got pwned!" Then they will take it very offensively. It was made popular when an employee from "Battle.net" made an error while he was making a map, and he spelled "own" as "pwn", and that is when people started pronouncing it incorrectly as "pone."

"There is no one that Ferratto can not pwn in an FPS video game."

by Brian Ferratto April 27, 2006

pwn

The word pwn originally comes from the infamous Alexander Alekhine (http://tinyurl.com/9byqo) who was one of the great Grandmasters of Chess. His dominating openings of using his pawns was to control the crucial center spaces of the board. During his matches, Alekhine was known to drink heavily and spout anti-semetic remarks. In a match in 1935 against a Dutch master named Euwe his drinking had gotten the better of him. Before starting the match he said to Euwe in a very broken heavily accented russian voice "I will pawn to your knight" (a common variation of his defense was to box his opponents knights using 2 pawns and his white bishop) which ended up sounding like "Evil pwn you tonight". Unfortunatly for Alehkine he gave away his gameplan which Euwe was able to take advantage of. Alehkine lost the match.
The word pwn has resurfaced from time to time in the chess community. It looks like it has finally found it's place in history along with it's founder Alehkine.

Evil pwn you tonight

by GunnCat July 16, 2008