Pronunciations (2)
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/ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/
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ˈtʌtʃdaʊn
Noun
A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
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Today I scored my first touchdown.
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“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.”
A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
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A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
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A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.
The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
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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[…]
The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
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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.
Noun
a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line
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a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes
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