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- verb Internet slang Simple past tense and past participle of
pwn .
Etymologies
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Examples
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How is it our government is now a label pwned by corporate media.
Progressive Failures in the Democratic Party Benefit Greens 2008
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How is it our government is now a label pwned by corporate media.
Progressive Failures in the Democratic Party Benefit Greens 2008
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How is it our government is now a label pwned by corporate media.
Progressive Failures in the Democratic Party Benefit Greens 2008
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Instead they turn these efforts into laughing stocks because the entire effort gets "pwned" by the public.
NASA To Announce Node 3 Name on Colbert Show - NASA Watch 2009
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When will hollywood wake up and realize that people are tired of paying upwards of $12 to sit in a room and stare at a screen …. pwned on May 7, 2008 the fact is that Iron Man DID NOT get "pwned" by GTA.
Iron Man Rocks the Box Office - Take That GTA IV! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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The entymology of 'pwned' is based on purpose mispelling.
Kyl: 'I Don't Need Maternity Care.' Stabenow: 'Your Mom Probably Did' 2009
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| Reply | Permalink dont stop posting .... just dont take it so personally. comments are a great place to air out ideas. most of the people calling you an idiot are probably 14 and using the word "pwned"
Obama To Hillary: "I'm Looking Forward To You Advising Me" 2009
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 Kobra's big plan is closer to fruition than ever, a bunch of pawns are killed when they discover what Kobra's really up to could we say they got "pwned"?
What I bought – 19 March 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Without consistency in language, people end up writing insane things like "pwned", and "Grey's Anatomy is a great show!"
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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I've said this before in many debates on this subject, i.e. on www.raphkoster.com in the last week, but merely put a different spin on it: what cracks me up is that 75 percent of SL is *typed* and is *about* typing text -- but that merely means that it incorporated or "pwned" the text games, that's all.
Civicus 2006
lampbane commented on the word pwned
"The best part of getting older is gonna be intentionally misusing slang around teenagers just to watch them squirm."
November 17, 2007
etmlbristol commented on the word pwned
PWNED (verb)
The word pwned is a misspelling of the word owned. The creator of World of Warcraft attempted to design the game so that when your character died, it says “so and so has been owned” but accidently it was typed out to look like this: “so and so has been pwned” And so started the madness.
The etymology of the word pwned has become that the “p” is purely and the owned is just owned. Clearly that adds up to purely owned. Examples include :
“This is to inform everyone that I pwned @ezanee in scrabble. That is all.”
“LOL you got Pwned in Paint Ball War . Try cover shoot or run and dodge from the paint balls .”
“never can get enough of england getting pwned :p”
Other forms of the word pwned are “pwnage”, “pwn”, “pwnocity”, and “pwning.” So go out and use your new knowledge of internet slang but just make sure you don’t get PWNED!!
July 14, 2010