Owned

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"Owned" (often typed in leet speak among gamers) is an internet slang word used commonly in gaming circles to acknowledge a form of superiority through the downfall of another entity, be it another gaming clan, or a single user. This can be in the context of winning an online game, a debate on a forum, or attaining a successful hacking, as well as the signature to a rebuttal, such as "You got owned!" to announce the defeat of another user on the internet in the form of a debate or flame war. It signifies screwing up and humiliation, often through the dominance or superiority of another party. Usually, the term is used to express dominance in a negative sense, proclaiming better skill than the opponent for purposes of killing them. "Owned" can be used as a verb (to "own"), an adverb ("owningly") and a noun ("ownage").

While sometimes similar in usage and pronunciation, "owned" is not to be confused with pwned, which many consider an entirely different term.

Ownage has recently spread beyond the gaming community into standard slang, where it ususually means severe defeat (eg when a person in an argument is so soundly beaten they are lost for words) or when someone is injured/defeated/etc in an amusing way. The term "own" may also refer to "coolness".

1 Examples
2 Variations
3 See also
4 References

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A player who repeatedly beats their opponent in online computer games, may claim they have "owned" him or her.
A player who has been killed in a way that is deemed to have taken a large amount of skill is said to have been "owned".
Players with a high amount of skill or experience can pull off more difficult moves, and are more likely to "own" their opponents.
There are military examples of similar sentiments being expressed by a victorious party.^{[citation needed]}
A player who dominates another team, or consistently maintains a better Kill to Death Ratio, is said to "own" at games, or have "owned" the game.
To be made a fool of; To make a fool of; To confound or prove wrong; embarrassing someone: Being embarrassed.
In the context of computer Hacking, Owned refers to the compromise of confidential computer systems, computers, or networks. There is also another form of owned such as "y0u g0t 0wn3d".
A player who achieves a high score may decree "ownage" upon the other team.
Because of its popularity among leetspeakers, "owned" has taken on a number of derivatives, such as ownage, pwned and pwnage; each of these words can have various spellings by substituting characters by numbers (such as replacing e by 3) or other ways of expressing a letter (such as \/\/ for w).
Many videogame players abbreviate this term even further while at the same time give it a tense by simply saying "ownt" or "pwnt".

[edit] Variations

Theres no variations, n00b.

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[edit] See also

[edit] References

"Phrack Loopback", Phrack, Sep. 1, 1996. Usage in security-compromise context.
"Re: An unusual situation", alt.sysadmin.recovery, Jun. 21, 1996. USENET posting with usage in security-compromise context.
"Re: An unusual overbite", Forums.offtopic.com, 2006?. OT user CHORDATE lying about a bar tab.
"Re: Own3d images", own3d.info, 2006?. Some common images used to portray the word Own3d.