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Touchdown   /tˈətʃdˌaʊn/   Listen
Touchdown

noun
1.
A score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line.
2.
A landing (as the wheels touch the landing field); especially of airplanes.



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point after touchdown


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"Touchdown" Quotes from Famous Books



... fight in the dark, the details of which were never very clear to the Motor Boys. Bob said he let loose all the grenades he had at the advancing party of Germans and then rushed at them, head down, as though advancing the ball for a touchdown. ...
— Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line - The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam • Clarence Young
... asked each captain if his men were ready, after which he blew the whistle, and the game was on, and within five minutes our team scored a touchdown. ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... did not bother him; if he had had time to consider the matter he would probably have decided that they knew his ability and were not going to insult him by offering assistance. But Pemberton wasn't one to be worried over details. What was wanted was a touchdown, or, failing that, a good long gain. So, with the rest of the back field plunging toward the left, Pemberton started on his own ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... goal was endangered by a fumbled ball, and within three minutes Trench had torn a hole in the defense, through which the Sunrise team were sending Vic Burleigh for a touchdown. The bleachers went wild and the grandstand was almost shipwrecked ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter
... |Ollie was hurled in. He took the ball, sought coolly| |for the weakest spot he might find in a line that | |was almost impregnable at the moment, and then, | |instantly finding what he wanted, twisted his way | |backward through left tackle and fell across the | |chalk mark for a touchdown. | | | |The way the rest of the Army boys sank their fists | |into Ollie's broad back when he got up, you'd have | |thought he'd be in no shape for any other position | |than lying flat upon a stretcher. But ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer


Words linked to "Touchdown" :   American football, touch down, landing, point after touchdown, score, American football game


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