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Touchdown
//ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn// noun
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Noun
- 1 A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone. Canadian, countable, uncountable
"Today I scored my first touchdown."
- 2 a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line wordnet
- 3 A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play. countable, uncountable
- 4 a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes wordnet
- 5 A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal). countable, uncountable
"A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead."
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- 6 The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing. countable, uncountable
"The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown."
- 7 The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground. countable, uncountable
"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."
Etymology
From touch + down.
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