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Owned is a slang word that originated among 1990s hackers, where it referred to "rooting" or gaining administrative control over someone else's computer. By 1997 it was regularly used in website defacements. It then spread to gaming circles, where it came to mean acquisition 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, being humiliated or beaten, 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").original research?] Some may type "0wned", or "0wn3d" -- as it commonly appears in leet speak.Who says this?] Ownage has recently spread beyond the gaming community into standard slangcitation needed], where it usually means severe defeat (e.g. 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 being "cool".original research?]