Pawn most often refers to:
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Pawn (chess), the weakest and most numerous piece in the game
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Pawnbroker
A pawnbroker is an individual or business (pawnshop or pawn shop) that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been ''pawned'' to the broker are themselves called ''pledges'' or ...
or pawnshop, a business that provides loans by taking personal property as collateral
Pawn may also refer to:
Places
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Pawn, Oregon, an historic forest community
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Pawn River, Burma
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Noatak Airport
Noatak Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Noatak, in the Northwest Arctic Borough of the U.S. state in Alaska.
Facilities
Noatak Airport has one r ...
, International Civil Aviation Organization code PAWN
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Pawn'' (2013 film), an American film
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''The Pawn'' (film), a 1978 French film
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''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
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Pawnship, debt bondage slavery
* Pawn, another name for a
pledge
Pledge may refer to:
Promises
* a solemn promise
* Abstinence pledge, a commitment to practice abstinence, usually teetotalism or chastity
* The Pledge (New Hampshire), a promise about taxes by New Hampshire politicians
* Pledge of Allegianc ...
in certain jurisdictions
People with the surname
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Doris Pawn (1894–1988), an American actress of the silent film era
See also
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Pawn Stars (disambiguation)
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Porn (disambiguation)
Porn is a common short form for pornography. It may also refer to:
Media
* Alt porn, alternative pornography often produced by small and independent websites or filmmakers
* Bavarian porn, a campy subgenre of comic erotic cinema from Germany
* F ...
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Prawn (disambiguation)
Prawns may refer to either of two groups of crustaceans:
*Dendrobranchiata, including genera such as ''Penaeus'', '' Sergestes'' and ''Acetes''
*More generally, it may be used for shrimp and prawns
Prawn may also refer to:
*Prawn, an extraterrest ...
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