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Pawn may refer to:

  • Pawn (chess), the piece used in the board game chess
  • Pawn (law), another name for a pledge in certain jurisdictions
  • Pawnbroker, the act of pawning goods, usually in a pawnshop
  • Idiomatically, an exploited person or character, considered expendable (from the use of the chess piece), he was only a pawn in her game
  • The Pawn, a 1980s text adventure
  • Pawn (comic), a humorous erotic fantasy webcomic written and drawn by Fredrik K.T. Andersson [1]
  • Pawn is a term in Leetspeak (1337) descending from (Own-pwn-pown-pawn) , a variation of pwn
  • Pawn (game), a freeware chess program [2]
  • Pawn (programming language), a programming language that can be embedded in various things.
  • Pawn Game, a MMO shoot 'em up PC flash game.