touchdown
noun/ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/
Etymology From touch + down.
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American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports Canadian A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
- Today I scored my first touchdown.
- “I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2009. “It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me speedwise. I wasn’t all that fast.”2020 October 29, Richard Goldstein, “Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts’ Unitas, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times:
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Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Rugby, Sports A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
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Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Rugby, Sports A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
- A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC:
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Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
- The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
- And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no[…]1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château, performed by Elton John:
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The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
- The American Red Cross sent me to Alabama within twenty-four hours of the tornado's touchdown, and I visited the communities of Oak Grove and Rock Creek four subsequent times.2003, Jessica McNew, Eyes in a Storm:
- Derived terms
- nontouchdown, touchdown dance, touchdown pass, touchdown space, touchdown workspace, touchdown area
- Related terms
- touch down