Re: "Owned"

["Pat Durkin" <durk183@xxxxxxx>]

"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "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?

I hven't heard it, but there is that expression, made familiar most 
recently by Colin Powell--You break it you own it (or buy it).

The Russians did a pretty good job breaking up the Germans.
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