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Definition of Touchdown

1. Noun. A score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line.

2. Noun. A landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes.

Definition of Touchdown

1. n. The act of touching the football down behind the opponents' goal .

Definition of Touchdown

1. Noun. (American football Canadian football) A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone. Analogous to a try in rugby. ¹

2. Noun. (aviation) The moment when an aircraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing. ¹

3. Noun. (rugby) A try ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Touchdown

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Touchdown

touch screens touch sensation touch system touch typing touch up touch wood toucha touchable touchableness touchably

touchas touchback touchbacks touchbox touchboxes touchdown (current term) touchdown dance touchdown dances touchdowns touche

touched touched(p) touched in the haid touched in the head touched up toucher touchers touches touches up touchest

Literary usage of Touchdown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Athletics at Princeton: A History by Frank Presbrey, James Hugh Moffatt (1901)
"IQ—touchdown by DeCamp. The team possessed strong material but was weak in ... 12—• touchdown by DeCamp. On Election Day Princeton played a team ot ..."

2. Stevens Indicator by Stevens Institute of Technology (1884)
"Yale at 3.15 pm, and Wurtemburg made a touchdown in three minutes, Watkinson kicking a goal six points, a goal from field by Watkinson, five points and a ..."

3. Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide ...: Foot Ball Rules as Recommended by by National Collegiate Athletic Association, Walter Camp (1915)
"The difficulty of such a performance, when making a touchdown on the run also is involved, may be appreciated when it is stated that out of the thousands of ..."

4. Basic Helicopter Handbook by Diane Publishing Company (1995)
"Pulling the nose up just prior to touchdown. FLARE AUTOROTATION A flare autorotation (fig. 77) enables the pilot to land a helicopter at any speed between ..."

5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1890)
"Such a play entitles his side to a " try- at-goal," and if they succeed in kicking the ball over the bar, then the goal only scores and not the touchdown; ..."

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