Word of the Day:
touchdown
What It Means
A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
Touchdown in Context
““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.””
Did You Know?
From touch + down.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: touchdown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
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