A fork of Rural Dictionary
1) Expendable frontliner. 2) Next-to-useless chess piece. 3) to trade in one's belongings for cash, hoping to buy them back when in better financial shape (or if unwanted, not at all).
You are my pawn All eight of my pawns are gone and all they did was take a rook I pawned in your son to buy a gat.
Originally coming from the word "pwnd" but this form of it is acceptable as well most likely because this is how you pronounce it. The word itself means humiliating/defeating/achieving significant victory over someone, but this is how druids in World of Warcraft say "pwnd" due to them being able to shift into forms like cat/bear which have paws.
Druid: I pawned that warrior. Random class: That druid pawned me.
To lose all dignity in a vain attempt to conciliate financial debt by temporarily selling one's most valued possessions to good peoples for pennies on the dollar.
"Yeh, I wanna pawn dis ring." (or "Yes good sir, I would like to borrow some money in exchange for my ring.")
verb- Full spelling of "pwn" an internet term (which has migrated in some cases to real life) referencing humiliating defeat. Such defeats usually come due to a lack of skill of the pwn'd when challenging the pwn'er. The use of the word references the fact The one who was pawned was so utterly humiliated by the pawner that the pawned belongs to the pawner from now on. The Pawner however, esteems them of no worth and instead chooses to sell them off. Thus the defeated has been "pwn'ed"
j00 s|_|xx0|2. | PWN j00. How did the test go? I was Pawned