pwnage

P3W4N1A1G2E1

noun

Ownage; the act of pwning.

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Meanings

nounpwnage (usually uncountable, plural pwnages)

plural pwnages

  1. InternetLeetuncountableusuallyOwnage; the act of pwning.

    "OMDFDG LOOK AT THIS PWNAGE SCORE!!"

    2001 September 22, Kix, “Re: lo all”, in uk.games.computer.counterstrike (Usenet), retrieved 23 Sep 2016, message-ID <T08r7.11495$cZ6.1186220@news1.cableinet.net>
    1 more example

    "The very high level of access required to call the function (PROCESS_VM_WRITE) is not suitable for an inter-process communication channel, since it basically gives the writer full pwnage over the process being written to."

    2026 February 18, Raymond Chen, “Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? - The Old New Thing”, in Microsoft Developer Blogs, retrieved 19 Feb 2026

Origin

From pwn + -age.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

pwnage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pwnage

MLA

“pwnage.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pwnage. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pwnage,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pwnage.

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