POW (disambiguation)

POW stands for prisoner of war, a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

POW or pow may also stand for:

Entertainment

• Pow!, a 1960s British comic
• P.O.W. (TV series), a 2003 mini-series airing on ITV
• Pow Entertainment (Purveyors of Wonder Entertainment), a media production company
• Prisoners of War (TV series), the English-language title of the Hebrew-language 2010 Israeli series Hatufim, on which the 2011 US TV series Homeland was loosely based

Music

• "P.O.W. (Pissed Off White Boy)", a song from Beowülf's 1993 album Un-Sentimental
• "Pow" (Forward), a 2004 song by Lethal Bizzle and banned on radio
• "POW" (song), a 2009 song by rapper Soulja Boy Tell 'Em

Video games

• P.O.W.: Prisoners of War', an arcade game that was ported to the NES console
• Prisoner of War (video game), a video game for PC, PS2 and Xbox

Other

• pow(x, y), an exponentiation function in computer programming
• PoW or POW: HMS Prince of Wales, a Royal Navy battleship of WWII
• Polska Organizacja Wojskowa, or Polish Military Organisation, active before and during World War I
• POW: the IATA code for Portorož Airport in Portorož, Slovenia
• PoW or POW: Proof of work in cryptography

See also

• Pow wow (disambiguation)