| Subject: | "Owned" |
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| From: | "Richard Fangnail" |
| Date: | 30 Dec 2006 21:15:45 -0800 |
| Newsgroups: | alt.english.usage, sci.lang |
"owned" seems to be very recent slang for "was defeated by." Like, "the nazis got owned by the Russians." Where did this idiom come from? |
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