Pwned

Pwned means to completely dominate the opposition, or impose a humiliating defeat on the enemy. This term is used mostly in online games.

Pwned originates from a game of Counter-Strike, around Christmas day in 2002, in which a player was eating while playing at a party, and faced off against the last remaining enemy by himself. After winning, he typed with one-hand the word "owned", which ended as a mistype, with the "p" replacing the letter "o" (P and O are next to each other on the QWERTY keyboard). Instead of correcting the mistake, other players started using it, which soon spread to popular games, like Starcraft I and Warcraft III.

*Player 1 shoots Player 2
Player 1: You just got pwned
Player 3: pwned?
Player 1: pwned as in pawned.
Player 4: PWNED!
Player 5: pwned
Player 1: pwnt!
*Player 8 joined the game
Player 9: pwned
Player 8: does pwned mean pistol owned?
Player 1: lol

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