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touchdown

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context American football Canadian football English) 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. 2 (context aviation English) The moment when an aircraft or ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN catch ▪ Owens is a dangerous playmaker with six touchdown catches . pass ▪ He was beaten on three touchdown passes , two by the Seahawks' Joey Galloway. ▪ Hostetler capped the drive by evading the pass rush, scrambling ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1864, originally in rugby, where the ball is literally touched down on the other side of the goal, from verbal phrase (by 1859 in sports), from touch (v.) + down (adv.). As "landing of an aircraft" from 1935.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A touchdown is the primary method of scoring in American and Canadian football. Touchdown may also refer to:

Usage examples of touchdown.

But once within the airspace boundary of the Europan Demarchy, trafficmanagement co-opted the flitter, vectoring it into a touchdown corridor.

DuLafayette Webster, Heisman trophy winner for the Elton State Comanches, scored three touchdowns singlehandedly in the first half of the Fujitsu Guacamole Bowl on Christmas Night.

An ippon is like a home-run in baseball with the bases loaded, or a touchdown in the final seconds in football: a game-winning score.

If you witnessed the game between the eleven of the Orphion Academy and the Oakdale Football Club, which decided the championship by a single point in favor of the former, you were thrilled by the sight of the half-back, who, at a critical point in the contest, burst through the group which thronged about him, and, with a clear field in front, made a superb run of fifty yards, never pausing until he stooped behind the goal-posts and made a touchdown.

Half a minute before touchdown, Ries braced his feet against Pawlak and pushed.

It was Styler who had crushed the knuckles and bones and it would have to be Styler who was paid back, which now meant that the play required more than a touchdown to be successful.

The Tewels boy had caught three passes and scored the winning touchdown on a reverse.

And she instantly delivered it to Man O War, watching him pull it in and turn upfield, a half step taken when a whippet-like ABM hit the broken hand with his helmet, splitting both helmet and cast, the ball bouncing just once before a second whippet scooped it up and galloped in for a touchdown.

With the game scoreless half way through the first quarter, Bernie Kosar threw a fifty-six yard touchdown pass to Webster Slaughter.

Merrimac all rich with broken pines and browns, fall, the whistle was just shrilled to end the third quarter in the wintry November field where crowds and me and father stood watching scuffling uproars of semipro afternoons like in the days of old Indian Jim Thorpe, boom, touchdown.

After he had literally knocked down a wooden goalpost while catching a touchdown pass he had acquired the nickname Sherman, in reference to the tank, and I seldom heard anyone call him Abner, which was his given name.

Then he seated himself at the pilot console awaiting touchdown on Tania Borealis.

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And kept her there, cursing steadily and viciously, all through reentry and touchdown.

Vrl had been awakened two ship weeks before touchdown to be apprised of the necessary routine of report and contact with the other two sections.