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Stupid question... but it's digging at me :)?
okay, I've seen this alot around Y!A and a bunch of other places... what does "pwnage" or "pownage" mean? I saw it on a Youtube comment- * well J.D. kinda pwned Dr. Cox* and so no rude answers please, just the actual meaning for a small town teenage girl who knows very little. thanks you all
(*.thee.i.less.than.three.<33*)
wow, thank you guys. i thought that was what it was, but i wanted to make sure. i wish i didnt have to pick just one best answer!
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- jasmineLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
A corruption of the word "Owned." This originated in an online game called Warcraft, where a map designer misspelled "owned." When the computer beat a player, it was supposed to say, so-and-so "has been owned."
Instead, it said, so-and-so "has been pwned."
It basically means "to own" or to be dominated by an opponent or situation, especially by some god-like or computer-like force.
"Man, I rock at my job, but I still got a bad evaluation. I was pwned."
- choko_canyonLv 71 decade ago
The first answerer is essentially correct. It came from multiplayer online games and is a slang term for "owned" or "ownage" meaning beaten or otherwise defeated. It came about because when people were typing fast they would accidentally type "pwnd" as a typo instead of "owned". The typo evolved to become a slang term. Fascinating, isn't it?
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It started as a typo an an online game (i think runescape or WoW) and when a person 'kiked someone's ***' they meant to type 'owned!' but instead typed 'pwned' it caught on from there...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it means you got owned.
Which also means:
To be made a fool of; To make a fool of; To confound or prove wrong; embarrasing someone: Being embarrased.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Its a slang term for 'own' or 'owned' or 'ownage' on MMORPG Games xD
- Anonymous1 decade ago
it means "owned" or ownage.
it's like when someone gets "burned" like someone beat them at something or like someone gets hurt and they go "oh u just got owned!" or something like that.
Source(s): http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwn... that website has a bunch of different slang that people use today so u can look up stuff like that there. - Anonymous1 decade ago
It means "owned" as in "kicked his @ss".
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