Pwned - Definition

Pwned - Definition - The word Pwned has many definitions and origins. Basically it is a misspelling of the word “owned“. The “P” and the “O” are so close together. If you are “Pwned“, you have just been embarrassed, hurt, killed, defeated, demolished, or someone has made a fool of you.

This is a picture of Ken Jennings Pwning other players at Jeopardy. ” Rich and Jennifer got Pwned ”

Pwned

Here are more “Pwned” definitions with their links. Pwned became popular in online gaming, but now it can be used anywhere to describe a number of situations.

Urban Dictionary Definition of Pwned

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.”

OR

“That team totally pwned us.”

Wikipedia Definition of Pwned
Pwn (/po?n/, /pu?n/, /p???o?n/, /p??n/, /pi?o?n/, /pw???n?/) is a leetspeak slang term, derived from the word “own”, that implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet gaming culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated. Past tense is sometimes spelled pwnt (pronounced with a t sound), pwned, pwnd, pwn3d, or powned (with the standard d sound). Examples include “pwnage” or “You just got pwned!” More obscure phrases include “über-pwnage” or “pwningful”.

In hacker jargon, to “pwn” means “to compromise” or “to control,” specifically another computer (server or PC), web site, gateway device, or application. It is synonymous with one of the definitions of hacking or cracking. An outside party who has “owned” or “pwned” a system has obtained unauthorized administrative control of the system.