Pawn (chess) for the piece used in the board game chess. Pawnbroker for the act of pawning goods, unremarkably within the loan office. Idiomatically, an exploited person or character, considered spendable (from either a apply of the chessman). He was single the pawn inside her game. The Pawn, a 1980s text adventure Pawn (comic) is a humourous titillating fantasy webcomic written & drawn by Fredrik K.T. Andersson.