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 or The 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 (video game), 1985 interactive fiction game
  • "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
  • Pawn, a token or game piece in board and video games

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)