when someone has a really good come back and beats u in the arguement!

own - to own (verb)

to own is to dominate something or someone.

when you make a fool of self in the presence of another.

to beat (win), to beat(cause injury), to embarass, to be injured by a random catastrophy variant:pwned

To say that something is the best or better than something else.

The term "Owned" was originally conjured circa 1986 by a small Canadian Apple II user's group in Langley, BC. Primary usage was similar to current internet vernacular, but was usually restricted to computer hardware and not gaming.

Use was slightly adapted to indicate superiority over another person. Or to declare that said person is merely chattel.

To have control over, ie. in cracking, to have gained root- or administrator-level access to one's computer, by (for instance) installing a trojan-horse program thereupon, exploiting a security loophole in its operating system, or socially-engineering access to its password. (Often the domain of script-kiddies and malicious crackers, rather than "hackers" of the creative type.)