Meaning of Touchdown | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
   Canadian, countable, uncountable
2. A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
   countable, uncountable
3. A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
   countable, uncountable
4. The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
   countable, uncountable
5. The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.””

“A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.”

“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 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.”

CEFR level