pwn
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 3
/pəʊn/
(UK)
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/pəʊn/ (UK) · /pɔːn/ (UK) · /piˈəʊn/ (UK) · /poʊn/ (US) · /piˈoʊn/ (US) · /pɔn/ (US) · /piˈɔn/ (US)
Definition of pwn
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(Internet, ambitransitive, dated)To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).
“I pwned them in game!”
“2nd guard: "Yeah, shiiit! I PWNED YO @zz!"”
“Otherwise I use fury as my normal attack. Fury completely pwns!”
“When you get to the Temple of Marr, look very closely at the vases at zone-in and see if you can find the picture where Mith Marr "pwns" someone.”
“My Trident pwns the Cirrus Logics!”
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verb
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(Internet, ambitransitive, dated)To own, to defeat or dominate (someone or something, especially a game or someone playing a game).
“I pwned them in game!”
“2nd guard: "Yeah, shiiit! I PWNED YO @zz!"”
“Otherwise I use fury as my normal attack. Fury completely pwns!”
“When you get to the Temple of Marr, look very closely at the vases at zone-in and see if you can find the picture where Mith Marr "pwns" someone.”
“My Trident pwns the Cirrus Logics!”
noun
- (Internet, countable, uncountable)Triumph, victory. Often exclaimed after an opponent in a video game is defeated.
- (Internet, countable, uncountable)An exploit in computer security, especially relating to machine code.
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of pulsar wind nebula.
- (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of person with narcolepsy.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards).
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