Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Internet, countable, uncountable)Triumph, victory. Often exclaimed after an opponent in a video game is defeated.

  2. (Internet, countable, uncountable)An exploit in computer security, especially relating to machine code.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Verily, a noob was pwn'd and he was pwn'd hard.

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  2. omg a n00b pwned me!

    ruО Боже, меня поимел нуб!

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  3. I pwn noobs.

    ruЯ уделываю нубов.

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  4. You've been pwned.

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  5. Grandma Jackson used the word "pwned" today.

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Origin

From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty k

From own, possibly born out of a typographical error (the adjacency of o and p on qwerty keyboards).

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Forms

plural: pwns
Singularpwn
Pluralpwns

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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