Pawn Explained

Pawn most often refers to:

• Pawn (chess), the weakest and most numerous chess piece in the game
• Pawnbroker or pawnshop, a business that provides loans by taking personal property as collateral

Pawn may also refer to:

Places

• Pawn, Oregon, an historic forest community
• Pawn River, Burma
• Noatak Airport, International Civil Aviation Organization code PAWN

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Pawn (2013 film), an American film
• The Pawn (film), a 1978 French film
• Pawn (2020 film), a South Korean film
• The Pawn, a 1980s text adventure
• "Pawns", a song on the 2017 Paloma Faith album The Architect

Other uses

• Pawnship, debt bondage slavery
• Pawn, another name for a pledge in certain jurisdictions

People with the surname

• Doris Pawn (1894–1988), an American actress of the silent film era

See also

• Pawn Stars (disambiguation)

• Porn (disambiguation)
• Prawn (disambiguation)