Ownage
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 ownership archaic, rare, uncountable
"I Alone, of all the Graecians, haue not obteined the estate of a Monarche by extertion, neither haue I taken any thing, that was not mine owne by vsurpation: for I am by byrth, a Cecropian, I challenge that vnto me by right of ownage, ..."
- 2 triumph or domination slang, uncountable
"OK so I got a Dimond Monster 3d II and i slid that sucka in and it seemed to be doing great but now it seems that quake2 will bomb out on me but the video card wont deinitialize thus i am stuck with a still screen and the only way to fix it is to reboot do i need new drivers or is it a setting in quake i need some help here cause with out the practice my play no longer contains any lighty frosted ownage"
- 3 The situation where one player has a history of domination over another player. uncountable
"Smith is just 1-27 lifetime against Jones. Jones has real ownage over him."
Example
More examples"I Alone, of all the Graecians, haue not obteined the estate of a Monarche by extertion, neither haue I taken any thing, that was not mine owne by vsurpation: for I am by byrth, a Cecropian, I challenge that vnto me by right of ownage, ..."
Etymology
* own (“to have rightful possession of”) + -age
* own (“to defeat, overwhelm”) + -age
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