touchdown

• touch down, touch-down

From touch + down.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌt͡ʃ.daʊn/

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touchdown (countable and uncountable, plural touchdowns)

1. (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.

   Today I scored my first touchdown.

   • 2020 October 29, Richard Goldstein, “Jimmy Orr, a Favorite Target of the Colts’ Unitas, Dies at 85”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “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. (rugby) A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
3. (rugby) A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
   • 2011 February 13, Lyle Jackson, “Ireland 22-25 France”, in BBC‎^[2]:

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

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

   Synonym: setdown

   The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.

   • 1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château‎^[3], performed by Elton John:

     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 […]

5. The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
   • 2003, Jessica McNew, Eyes in a Storm:

     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.

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• touch down

Unadapted borrowing from English touchdown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑtʃˌdɑu̯n/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝t̪ʃˌdɑ̝u̯n]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑtsˌdɑu̯n/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ts̠ˌdɑ̝u̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɑun

touchdown

1. (American football) touchdown

• maali

Unadapted borrowing from English touchdown.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtat͡ʃdaun/ [ˈt̪at͡ʃ.ð̞ãũn]
  • Rhymes: -atʃdaun
• IPA^(key): /ˈtot͡ʃdaun/ [ˈt̪ot͡ʃ.ð̞ãũn]
  • Rhymes: -otʃdaun

touchdown m (plural touchdowns)

1. touchdown

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.