by awhitewookie January 19, 2010
the P is next to the O on a typical English keyboard, often online players trying to type "owned" will erroneously type "pwned." This phenomenon known as "pwned" is a mistake that was often typed in competitive games such as counter-strike pre 1.6, quake 3, unreal tournament among other FPS titles. At first players would ridicule those that would type "pwned" after defeating an opponent, eventually it became so common it became a meme.
by Dr.Christmas March 23, 2017
The word pwned stems from a mistake that a programmer of warcraft 2 or 3.He meant to make an ai player say owned but he made it pwned because p and o are so close together on the qwerty keyboard.
by Magnethands February 24, 2009
There are many different definitions of pwned and where it came from, here is the real one.
It was invented to say "player Owned", it is only used when a human player is killed or lost a game. It was not invented by a WoW player.
It was invented to say "player Owned", it is only used when a human player is killed or lost a game. It was not invented by a WoW player.
by Scivi May 7, 2009
"Pwned" meas u were overwhelmed by something or someone.
This word originated in Dota (warcraft III "mod")
because in the earliest version of this game, when you kill your enemy you need to take his head and sell it in a PAWN SHOP to get some gold. So it turns that you have just "PAWNED" your enemy. Then the word "PAWNED" became "PWNED" for an easier typeing or maybe just to look more like the other expression that means the same thing: "owned".
That's it.
This word originated in Dota (warcraft III "mod")
because in the earliest version of this game, when you kill your enemy you need to take his head and sell it in a PAWN SHOP to get some gold. So it turns that you have just "PAWNED" your enemy. Then the word "PAWNED" became "PWNED" for an easier typeing or maybe just to look more like the other expression that means the same thing: "owned".
That's it.
I pwnedddddddddddddd you n000000000000000bbbbbbbbbbb!
by Narox June 3, 2009
luke hemmings’ own language <3
by h 💘 September 24, 2021
I typo of the word "owned," that every Jonas-fag think means "powerfully owned" and spells with an O instead of a W.
by Koobface July 30, 2009