PWNED

Past tense. To have seized complete control over something or someone. To render a victim completely helpless and at the absolute mercy of the victor. It's origin comes from the word owned commonly used in hacker speak to represent complete ownership of a hacked computer system or defacement of a Website. The variation of spelling (from owned to pwned) is thought to have occurred do typing errors in certain online games. On a computer keyboard the letter p is close in proximity to the letter o , so pwned became a common misspelling. New online gamers seeing this misspelling simply adopted it as the true word for owned. Example: I pwned you when I took first place in the competition. Variations: owned, ownz