touchdown

Plural

touchdowns

1. 1.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.”

2. 2.A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.

3. 3.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.

4. 4.The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.

   • The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.

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