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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pawn .
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Examples
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Pwnd as in pawned (controlled) Pawned needs to be a real word though now that would be sweet.
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Long story short, my cousin pawned it because he needed the money.
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The trouble with the beginner at the writing game is the long, dry spells, when there is never an editor's cheque and everything pawnable is pawned.
Chapter 26 2010
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She stole the money I was making working in a restaurant and pawned the ring that a boyfriend had given me.
Rachel Lloyd: Me and Amy Rachel Lloyd 2011
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I struggled along, stood off the butcher and the grocer, pawned my watch and bicycle and my father's mackintosh, and I worked.
Chapter 26 2010
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Nevertheless, Rodriguez was here to ask for an extension on a loan from jewelry she had pawned months ago.
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She stole the money I was making working in a restaurant and pawned the ring that a boyfriend had given me.
Rachel Lloyd: Me and Amy Rachel Lloyd 2011
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Steve Jobs pawned his customers by signing an exclusive contract with AT&T.
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These he had pawned at the Company Store to pay his fare on the freighter to this lonely outpost.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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Nevertheless, Rodriguez was here to ask for an extension on a loan from jewelry she had pawned months ago.
GHibbs commented on the word pawned
There are adjectival uses in the examples.
August 20, 2011