touchdown

Plural: touchdowns

Noun

• a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line
• a landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes
• A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
• A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
• A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
• The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
• The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.

Examples

• The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
• Today I scored my first touchdown.

Synonyms

setdown

Related Words

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