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.The excellent satirical website, The People’s Cube, has pwned Iran’s propaganda website, Press TV, which used one of The People’s Cube’s spoof images to illustrate a “true” statement that Jews are welcome in Iran and that Western reports about
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